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“Cleaning the wound is often more painful
than the cut itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self

“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“My sister and I, we were selfish. We wanted selves. There was no rage or love that could stop us.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“There is a kind of fighting that isn’t ugly. There is a way for anger to come out as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water