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“I’m a recruiter,” said Soradiyo. “I look for people who have two things: jade, and something wrong with the part of the brain that’s supposed to make them fear death.”
“I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t have sex with strangers.’
Interview at Locus magazine, 2000”
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Interview at Locus magazine, 2000”
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“It was strange, Sari thought, that girls' joy in their own freedom was so often the thing that made men want to turn them into wives.”
― Sarahland
― Sarahland
“We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“The lesson you receive from The Chronicles of Narnia is that reality is not where it’s at, my friend, so get out by any point of egress you can find and get into somewhere better.”
― Other Worlds Than These
― Other Worlds Than These
“Claudio Bianchi did write poetry [...] He had no vanity about this, no fantasies of literary celebrity; he simply took pleasure putting words in order, exactly as he laid out seedlings in the spring, and tasting them afterward, as he tasted fresh new scallions or ripe tomatoes, or smelled mint or garlic on his hands.”
― In Calabria
― In Calabria
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