“I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified — not enough to turn back”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
“There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
“I would choose the heat above an equal degree of chill. The evidence of natural history points to a tropical origin for our species, and I believe it to be true.”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
“He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
“So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin.”
― The Tropic of Serpents
― The Tropic of Serpents
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