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“Back when Aislyn was a teenager, she often thought of her mother as dull. Since then Aislyn has come to understand that women sometimes have to pretend to be dull so that the men around them can feel sharper.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“But greed like that didn't start out bad. What alters wanting is what's behind it. Greed and hope aren't opposites. Greed and hope are twins grabbing for the same thing, one in fear and one in faith.”
― All the Water in the World
― All the Water in the World
“Evil comes from elsewhere, Matthew Houlihan believes. Evil is other people. She will leave him this illusion, mostly because she envies his ability to keep finding comfort in simple, black-and-white views of the world.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“Greed and hope aren't opposites. Greed and hope are twins grabbing for the same thing, one in fear and one in faith.”
― All the Water in the World
― All the Water in the World
“Nothing human beings do is set in stone--and even stone changes, anyway. We can change, too, anything about ourselves that we want to. We just have to want to. People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
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