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You never know what Legbara going to take it into he head to do. Him is a trickster. The Eshu-them too love to play games.”
Trickster
“But then, I have no memory of most of my childhood. Aster tells me she thinks I was hurt so badly that the only way I could go on was to pretend so hard that it didn’t exist until it was true, but what happened still lives in my body, like a witch’s curse. It is neither here nor there.”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
“I still don’t believe you,” she said. “Things don’t have to be as bad as you say they are.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“TV spun a web of dreams. Vern was happy to be caught in it. She could get drunk on this place where police were good, always solving crimes and caring about folks, and everyone was so shiny and pretty.”
― Sorrowland
― Sorrowland
“She’s more delicate than you’d think,” I say. She’s glass. I’m glass. We’re all glass, busted up, unrecognizable from our original selves. We walk around in fragments. It’s a circus act.”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
“Did you ever read about bubonic plague in medieval Europe?” I asked. She nodded. She reads a lot the way I do, reads all kinds of things. “A lot of the continent was depopulated,” she said. “Some survivors thought the world was coming to an end.” “Yes, but once they realized it wasn’t, they also realized there was a lot of vacant land available for the taking, and if they had a trade, they realized they could demand better pay for their work. A lot of things changed for the survivors.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
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