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Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man.
I am re-reading and I still chuckled at this passage
“Most of my yarn is for knitting, but some of it has a more complicated destiny as support staff: It is there to make me want to knit. It’s absolutely possible that I need the green Merino to inform how I’ll use the blue alpaca, and that ball of gorgeous variegated yarn? You bet”
― A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
― A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
“It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach”
― Voyager
― Voyager
“For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.”
― Voyager
― Voyager
“I assumed,” Ai-ming told me, “that when Big Mother’s stories finished, life would continue and I would go back to being myself. But it wasn’t true. The stories got longer and longer, and I got smaller and smaller. When I told my grandmother this, she laughed her head off. She said, ‘But that’s how the world is, isn’t it? Or did you think you were bigger than the world?”
― Do Not Say We Have Nothing
― Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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