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“Once the god-squaddie supreme, she was now possessed of the zeal of the apostate and came on like an atheistic stormtrooper.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become . . .
That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
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