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“The whole world’s made up of systems now. Systems that are too big for any one person to understand or control, or stop. Like the timetables. Alliances. Philosophies. And so now we’re here,”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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“In a way, it's easier to imagine the world's going to end. At least there's a certainty to it. End—bam—done. But change—where does change stop?”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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“Ghosts have warm hands, he kept telling me, as though it were the greatest secret in the world.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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“It was the poet’s alchemy, to seize the intangible or unspeakable and drag it, real, into the living world.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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“Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

tags: dry-humor-and-a-little-drama, ghosts

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