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“Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“Just remember this, girl, the water you hate is the water that’s going to drown you.”
― The Healing
― The Healing
“gaté gaté, para gaté, parasam gaté, boji sowa ka . . . These words are actually in some ancient Indian language71 and not even Japanese, but Jiko told me they means something like this: gone gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, awakened, hurray . . . I”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“People who are careless of the land and of the creatures and spirits with which we share it are careless of themselves.”
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless,’” Arundhati Roy has said. “There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
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