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“Then feed, the voice said, and something vast and inhuman, a body like a whale's, pressed against her, near suffocating her, and she held close to it, its rubbery body, its smell of brine and seaweed, the skin rough to the touch, her nose pressed against this huge belly, her mouth watering, her canines slipping out, sinking into the rubbery flesh of it, feeding, feeding on this enormity, this alien entity, too vast and powerful to comprehend, the feed overwhelming her, suffocating her, and in her mind that voice, chuckling as it faded, saying, Why do humans always make the comparison to whales?”
― Central Station
― Central Station
“The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it seduced the children and year by year crept closer.”
― Forty Thousand in Gehenna
― Forty Thousand in Gehenna
“Who is this cautious unhoping young woman? Where is the hero who bore such batterings for love and stood up before witnesses to ask me to be a hero too? And I am a hero now. Can't you see? We can be an army of two. We can be Plato's perfect army: lovers, who will never behave dishonorably in each other's sight, and invincible. Let the world either kill us or grow accustomed to us; here we stand.”
― Patience & Sarah
― Patience & Sarah
“Later in the evening Misabel went for a solitary stroll by the sea. She saw the moon rise and start his lonesome journey through the night.
"He's exactly like me," Misabel thought sadly. "So plump and lonely."
At this thought she felt so forsaken and mild that she had to cry a little.
"What are you crying for?" asked Whomper nearby.
"I don't know, but it feels nice," replied Misabel.
"But people cry because they feel sorry, don't they?" objected Whomper.
"Well, yes--the moon," Misabel replied vaguely and blew her nose. "The moon and the night and all the sadness there is..."
"Oh, yes," said Whomper.”
― Moominsummer Madness
"He's exactly like me," Misabel thought sadly. "So plump and lonely."
At this thought she felt so forsaken and mild that she had to cry a little.
"What are you crying for?" asked Whomper nearby.
"I don't know, but it feels nice," replied Misabel.
"But people cry because they feel sorry, don't they?" objected Whomper.
"Well, yes--the moon," Misabel replied vaguely and blew her nose. "The moon and the night and all the sadness there is..."
"Oh, yes," said Whomper.”
― Moominsummer Madness
“Rosie hated her curly golden hair. When she was old enough to hold minimal conversations, the itsy-bitsy-cutesycoo sort of grown-ups would pull the soft ringlets gently and tell her what a pretty little girl she was. She would stare at this sort of grown-up and say, “I am not pretty. I am intelligent. And brave.” The grown-ups usually thought this was darling, which only made her angry, perhaps partly because she was speaking the truth, although it was tricky to differentiate between “brave” and “foolhardy” at three or four years old.”
― Spindle's End
― Spindle's End
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