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She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.
“God is a thing I think I see glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing to be reduced to a name or a set of rules and instead winding itself through millions of stories, true and made up, connecting all breathing things.”
― The Love That Split the World
― The Love That Split the World
“Did you think they did it alone?
Built whole armies,
and conquered thrones?
Constructed promised lands
that would outlive the sun
resurrected prosperity from ash and bone?
A crest is not just a manmade thing
it is also created by generations of women
who wield swords through guile and letters.
Show me your kings,
and I will show you the queens that willed them,
that bred them, and taught them to do better.”
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Built whole armies,
and conquered thrones?
Constructed promised lands
that would outlive the sun
resurrected prosperity from ash and bone?
A crest is not just a manmade thing
it is also created by generations of women
who wield swords through guile and letters.
Show me your kings,
and I will show you the queens that willed them,
that bred them, and taught them to do better.”
―
“WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“Watch this!” he said, and what happened next might have been extraordinarily funny were their lives not at stake. But they were, so it wasn’t.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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