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“It’s very rude to get cunt on your mother,”
― The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
― The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
“When it croaked out of my mouth, I meant it as statement of fact, but looking back, it sounded perfectly weird, ambiguous, and off-putting, so it was just the right thing.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
“Longing. Look for it, in every crowd, and you will find it. Paint it any colour you choose: grief, nostalgia, melancholy, remembrance, these are but flavours, poetic reflections.”
― The God is Not Willing
― The God is Not Willing
“I do not need to be loved as deeply as I love, and I do not need to speak of it. All I knew was that she remembered me in this moment. And one moment is all there ever is.”
― The Daughters' War
― The Daughters' War
“Security’ takes many forms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there’s the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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