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Lea’s Notes & Highlights

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

1 highlight

“I guess maybe I don’t want to be warm and safe. I want to live.”

The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

5 highlights

Lea’s Quotes

“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

147 likes

“the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

tags: raising-steam

11 likes

“He loved the fact that if you got your customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

tags: raising-steam

4 likes

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

333 likes

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

tags: colonize, madness, reality

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