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In the beginning there was the Skyworld. She fell like a maple seed, pirouetting on an autumn breeze.* A column of light streamed from a hole in the Skyworld,
“Do you want to talk about it?” asked Louise. Her standard opening—one she’d devised over all four summers—one that left no room for insistence that everything was fine.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you!”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“you couldn’t think your way to a physical place, you had to go there.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“it seems to him that what they call civilization is, in truth, a storm in waiting. Powerful, protean and perfectly destructive, sooner or later it will burst free of its barriers and engulf everything in its insatiable path.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
“Hatred is a poison served in three cups. The first is when people despise those they desire—because they want to have them in their possession. It’s all out of hubris! The second is when people loathe those they do not understand. It’s all out of fear! Then there is the third kind—when people hate those they have hurt.” “But why?” “Because the tree remembers what the axe forgets.” “What does that mean?” “It means it’s not the harmer who bears the scars, but the one who has been harmed.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
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