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Was power a resource to be amassed in preparation for conflict, the way people amassed food in preparation for famine? Or was it the cause of conflict, creating a need for itself like the opium that Lam Yuk-Yiu smoked?
“This was the version of her who had survived and there was no sense in apologizing for being a survivor.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens
“Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.”
― The Stolen Heir
― The Stolen Heir
“I feel so alone sometimes, you have no idea. And the loneliness seems to seep into my bones and I get scared because I feel numb. Not depressed or upset: I’m a blank tape. Like someone dragged a magnet against the tape inside my brain and erased all the information. There’s nothing left to feel. I felt it all and I’ll never feel anything new again and I’ll always be alone.”
― Silver Nitrate
― Silver Nitrate
“Well, hindsight is almost a bigger bitch than you.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens
“Men like him would always look at her and see the things they were glad they weren't: weak, small, timid, powerless. Let them. She'd expended so much energy vying for a broken seat at an uneven table.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens
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