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“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I’m just confusing love with comfort, and I’m okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I read everything as it is given to me, exactly how it is said, only to discover that the world always operates just below the surface.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“For the first time in my life, I found mirrors for myself. Daphne, and now him. It's bizarre to witness these parts of myself - whatever they are, for if they have names, I don't know them - separated. I tied them together in my mind, as if my inability to grasp the intricacies of other people means I failed to also grasp the meeting of my sex at a basic level; as if one thing caused the other. Headmaster seems to think they're one and the same. Mother and Father do too. To see them divided disproves that.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“Why is it that when they hide their faces, men become monsters instead of angels?”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“It is a mind that experiences the world too much. It is a mind that at once experiences everything in its smallest details, but without sensing the deeper meaning the rest of the world seems to inherently understand. It is a mind that sees the patterns and clicking, ticking systems all around us, but crumbles as soon as something falls out of place. It is a mind that operates, it seems, in a mirror version of the world, where the same actions and reactions are experienced so differently it’s like we are not even the same species.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
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