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Put all your deaths, accidents, and diseases up front, at the beginning. Where possible. “Where possible” was often her rejoinder. We were always to keep in mind that it might not be possible to follow rules or guidelines because of what
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“Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for today
Adjudicate
Legislate
Scandalize
Capitalize
here are Kreon's nouns
Men
Reason
Treason
Death
Ship of State
Mine
Chorus: "mine" isn't a noun
Kreon: it is if you capitalize it”
― Antigonick
Adjudicate
Legislate
Scandalize
Capitalize
here are Kreon's nouns
Men
Reason
Treason
Death
Ship of State
Mine
Chorus: "mine" isn't a noun
Kreon: it is if you capitalize it”
― Antigonick
“But at my back in a cold blast I hear / the rattle of bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.”
― The Little Red Chairs
― The Little Red Chairs
“It’s a sin for Lily to let Mercedes think it was Daddy who beat up Frances. But he has done it in the past. Surely truth can be borrowed across time without perishing. Shelf life, so to speak.”
― Fall on Your Knees
― Fall on Your Knees
“Good women discuss these things the way epidemiologists identify and track disease without alarming the public. This is woman’s work. Men are unfitted for it by nature and should be protected from it the same way women shouldn’t have to go down the mines. Men are so innocent.”
― Fall on Your Knees
― Fall on Your Knees
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Lori’s 2025 Year in Books
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