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Book cover for Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)
She was not at all amused. “History has nothing to do with what happened.” “How can you say that? It’s apparent to me that you are responsible, at least partly, for the tapestry that holds the cove together. I’ve not been able to make sense ...more
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Emma Donoghue
“A fast didn't go fast; it was the slowest thing there was. Fast meant a door shut fast, firmly. A fastness, a fortress. To fast was to hold fast to emptiness, to say no and no and no again.”
Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

Joseph Campbell
“The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“It is not cynical to admit that the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added and removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and vision and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice!”
Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“The man or woman who is rarely lost, rarely discovers anything new.”
Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

Emma Donoghue
“How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.”
Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

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