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‘I wouldn’t do something like that,’ Taina says quietly. ‘Murder you, I mean.’ I don’t know what to say. Of course it’s nice to hear that my wife wouldn’t think of murdering me. On the other hand, the very fact that she even has to mention
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“There are boundaries in nature. There are rivers, forests, escarpments, ravines and mountain ranges; there are cellulose walls. But these boundaries are in fact areas of transaction, semi-permeable membranes. The notion that a perimeter should be impenetrable is a human contrivance alone.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“Walls look like order; but more often than not a wall stands at the precise fulcrum of an imbalance in society. Most walls are only necessary as a means of defending the resources of those that have them from those that lack them. In this way, though they present themselves as mechanisms of security, they are in fact tools of oppression.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“The spectre of alternative truth – highly organised, large-scale lies – that haunts the establishment today was heralded by the normalisation of shamelessness.”
― How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
― How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
“Someone who needs a veil, an object, even one made of silk, between themselves and the world is afraid of life. They’re afraid to experience things, to really feel them. And I think life is far too short and far too wonderful not to really look at it, not to really grab it, not to really live it.”
― The Eighth Life
― The Eighth Life
“So if this is you, too; if somewhere along the way you lost the part of yourself that felt you could do anything, be anything; if there is a part of you that doesn’t feel strong or doesn’t know how to begin, that doesn’t feel you look the way you ‘should’ or feels ashamed in your own body, I am here to tell you whatever you have believed in the past does not have to determine your story.”
― Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength
― Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength
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