Deadly Corvid

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“One such was the notion of uzan-iya,
which was what they called the moment when an innocent heart first contemplated the act of murder. To the Atul, the crime itself was secondary to this initial corruption.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince