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“Selena believed, with every fiber of her being, that a person’s worth was not defined by how hard they worked or how productive they managed to be. She also believed just as strongly that this did not apply to her.”
― Snake-Eater
― Snake-Eater
“She chooses to fight for you in her own way,” a voice said in her ear. “Would you ask strangers to fight for you, but deny your friends?”
“I don’t want her to get hurt. I don’t want any of them to get hurt!”
“Would you bear her hurts if you could?”
“Yes, of course!”
A soft, maternal chuckle. “Then grant her the same thing. You cannot stop others from loving you, you know, or from being noble about it.”
― Snake-Eater
“I don’t want her to get hurt. I don’t want any of them to get hurt!”
“Would you bear her hurts if you could?”
“Yes, of course!”
A soft, maternal chuckle. “Then grant her the same thing. You cannot stop others from loving you, you know, or from being noble about it.”
― Snake-Eater
“I'd never had the opportunity to be the object of hate before. The hard part isn't the hate. It's the object.”
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
“There’s no winning. The trauma is either your fault or it’s a gift. It’s either You should have done this to stop it or Look what good has come of it! If you don’t get over it, why can’t you get over it? Why can’t you get past it or learn how to cope? Or if you do find some way to move on with your life in a socially acceptable manner, then you’re so brave and so strong, and aren’t you amazing? Let’s applaud you for moving forward while there’s a knife at your back.”
― Such Sharp Teeth
― Such Sharp Teeth
“Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right—the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden. The word for the system driving those feelings starts with c, but if no one ever taught you how capitalism works, and instead told you it was all about freedom and sunshine and Big Macs and playing by the rules to get the life you deserve, then it’s easy to see how you might confuse it with another c-word: conspiracy.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
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Lena’s 2025 Year in Books
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