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“Does it get easier? Elliot thought, looking at her still pale face. Or is it just that you shut doors in your own heart and never open them again for fear of what is behind them?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“The code of not telling tales was the usual stuff where stronger people tried to impose their rules on weaker people so they could get away with everything.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“He could change something, maybe, even if he could not change enough.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

“What, you people expect women to tear apart their bodies and then go to all the bother of raising the children? That takes years, you know,” Serene remarked sternly. “The women’s labour is brief and agonizing, and the man’s is long and arduous. This seems only just. What on earth are men contributing to their children’s lives in the human world? Why would any human woman agree to have a child?” “The more she talks the more sense it all makes,” said Elliot. “Has anyone else discovered that?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands