“Empathy is an emotional loss leader. It pays for itself eventually.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“But breathing doesn’t always mean living, and maybe… maybe genocide doesn’t always leave bodies.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“I was four years old when I first saw a dragon. I was four years old when I first learned to be silent about dragons. Perhaps this is how we learn silence - an absence of words, and absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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