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Other mornings Ma spoke about adult things Kya didn’t understand, but she figured Ma’s words needed somewhere to go, so she absorbed them through her skin, as she poked more wood in the cookstove.
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“Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.”
― Reflections in a Golden Eye
― Reflections in a Golden Eye
“But Erin has empathy, lots of it, so much it hurts sometimes, so much that other people's pain turns into her own pain and makes her completely incapable of doing anything useful for anyone. That's why it's easier to avoid it than to engage. It's easier to try to ignore it than try to comfort whoever's hurting, because usually that backfires and makes things worse.”
― The Nowhere Girls
― The Nowhere Girls
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“She was a woman with something to protect. That made her more dangerous than they could ever have suspected.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
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