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“It was late spring when Marya Morevna slid her brass key into the lock of the house on Dzerzhinskaya Street, feeling it slide, too, between her own ribs, and open her like a reliquary full of old, nameless bones.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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“We humans have a penchant for ritualizing our sense of awe -- perhaps to tame it, perhaps to channel it toward another end.”
― Richard C. Francis

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“Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

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“We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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“It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

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