Daisy Gunner
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I was always better when it was one on one. In groups, I felt like the others had some connection that I wasn’t really a part of, no matter how much time we spent together.
“In the evening sunlight the green waters turned the color of mud, and all the world was cheap as a bad painting. The ugliness, I thought. This was what Gibson meant about the ugliness of the world. But perhaps the world was perfect and it was myself who was hideous.”
― Empire of Silence
― Empire of Silence
“In politically tense times, differences – rather than similarities – can easily be brought into sharp focus. And such differences can be exploited by any politician who ultimately cares more about their own power, or indeed some abstract idea of nationhood, than about the lives of ordinary people and the ordinary communities that they govern.”
― Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
― Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
“Valka smiled like a chip of broken glass,”
― Empire of Silence
― Empire of Silence
“There’s no need to imagine the planet as some malevolent force seeking vengeance. It’s a rock. This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate
“In the songs, Angulf Clovenfoot’s Gettlanders fell upon the Vanstermen like hawks from an evening sky. Master Hunnan’s misfits fell on Rissentoft like a herd of sheep down a steep flight of steps.”
― Half the World
― Half the World
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