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“It was me who suggested it. Her voice was low. Me who asked the women how we could ever go back to our lives, shoulder to shoulder with those men, knowing what they were capable of doing. We couldn’t break bread with them, let them into our beds, bear their children, not now that we knew the monsters that dwelled behind their human faces.”
― Atalanta
― Atalanta
“I didn't open my eyes, because my job was to lie on the couch without moving so that he might murmur, "Ah, my beauty is asleep." A few times in the past, I had let out a little snore at that moment, just for verisimilitude. But he did not like that at all.”
― Galatea
― Galatea
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Surrounded by child-eating swamp spirits, Toadling felt intensely loved.”
― Thornhedge
― Thornhedge
“Besides, sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific;”
― Minor Detail
― Minor Detail
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