I don’t like men who think they can get what they want by yelling.” “Neither do I,” Tomasaran said with a half smile I understood when she added, “My late husband was such a man.” “Many men are,” I said.
“A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.”
― Spear
― Spear
“Being here is like standing at the edge of the sea under a wide sky: clear, open, clean, and bright. Here is where I am meant to be.”
― Spear
― Spear
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”
― Hild
― Hild
“She liked time at the edges of things—the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood—where all must pass but none quite belonged.”
― Hild
― Hild
“These people were utterly human. But what was human? Human was not just family dinners, human was also the Inquisitions of Philip, the extermination of the Mayans, the terrible Reconstruction of the Community. Human meant cruelty as well as love, human was protecting one’s own at the expense of others. Human also meant having the capacity to change.”
― Ammonite
― Ammonite
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