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“The days may be dark,” Sidra said. “But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel joy.
“sick of men who think they can control the world and everyone within it.”
― Metal Slinger
― Metal Slinger
“Once an empire has become convinced of its worldview, anything that evidences the contrary must be erased.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful of hateful, self-important parasites, preying upon and paralyzing everyone else. As soon as those people left, the paralysis ended.”
― Emergency Skin
― Emergency Skin
“studying. It felt wrong to be sitting so still, to have nothing occupying her mind. She could barely stand three minutes of this torture, let alone sixty. She was so terrified of the thought of not thinking that she wasn’t able to accomplish it because she kept thinking about not thinking.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Like the happiness becomes so big, you have no choice but to live inside of it, until you can no longer see it or feel it. And so you start to fixate on something else—you want a child, and then the child is here, and that happiness is so big, it begins to feel like nothing. Like just the air around you.” Until it is gone, of course. Until you bury your wife or divorce your husband and then what? What do you do? Do you start all over again? Do you fixate on the new thing that you are sure is going to make you happy? How many times does a person do this over a lifetime? Is that just what life is?”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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