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“I can’t think of myself, my body, sometimes, without seeing the skeleton: how I must appear to an electron. A cradle of life, made of bones; and within, hazards, warped proteins, bad crystals jagged as glass.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way.”
― The Goddess Chronicle
― The Goddess Chronicle
“I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Izanami - over the long years that she had handed out death - had become a true goddess, and not just that: the quintessential destroyer […] she was the goddess who invited our desire and also our defilement; she bore the weight of the past and lived on into the future for ever. The realisation filled me with overwhelming awe.”
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“There's this ayah from the Quran that my dad always quotes when he sees something bad on TV. A fire or a flood or a bombing. "Whoever kills one person, it is as if he has killed all of mankind... And whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." When I was a little kid, that always made me feel better. Because no matter how bad things get there are always people who rush in to help. And according to my dad they are blessed.”
― No Normal
― No Normal
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