often, in Algeria, the essential tragedy was heightened by the feeling that—with a little more magnanimity, a little more trust, moderation and compassion—the worst might have been avoided.
“One day is the day for moving on, and overnight, the next day, there is no more good in moving on, because you have come where you were going to.”
― The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
― The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
“It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
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“I am called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn: Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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