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“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“The only thing I wanted was a life that God did not intend for me to have. I suffered the loss of things that were never mine.”
― The Patron Saint of Liars
― The Patron Saint of Liars
“There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomfortable. They're worse, more dangerous than those who speak their minds, because they don't know what they're capable of.”
― Dreaming in Cuban
― Dreaming in Cuban
“We have no prisons, after all." I thought about that, and found that I knew what prisons were. Humans often locked up their lawbreakers in cages. Prisons. "No Ina prisons? Why?" "None of us are willing to spend our lives in prison with the lawbreakers. Maintaining a prison isn't quite as unpleasant as being a prisoner in one, but it's bad enough. And levying fines would be meaningless. It's too easy for us to get money form the human population. For lesser crimes, most likely we amputate something.”
― Fledgling
― Fledgling
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