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“You obeyed, once, because you thought it would make you safe. He showed you—again and again, unrelentingly, he would not let you pretend otherwise—that if obedience did not make one safe from the Guardians or the nodes or the lynchings or the breeding or the disrespect, then what was the point? The game was too rigged to bother playing.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate
“think you hate me because… I’m someone you can hate. I’m here, I’m handy. But what you really hate is the world.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me, and you.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“We aren't human."
"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
― The Fifth Season
"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
― The Fifth Season
David’s 2024 Year in Books
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