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“Why do you have these parties? To honor the seasons, to honor each other, to gather, to remember that we are part of something bigger than the petty things of today.”
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“People always kill what they do not understand. It makes them feel powerful.”
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
“Because we must see beauty in the darkness to make our way through. The good Lord gave us this beauty to sustain us, without it we have nothing... We grow accustomed to the Dark, Emily whispered, "when Light is put away.”
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
“Aren't we all descendants of foreigners at this table? Emily asked. Not a single one of us is an Indian, correct?”
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
“Hospitality was not a voluntary action that a person extended to friends and colleagues. It was a society-wide obligation that every household was duty bound to extend to strangers, foreigners, travelers, and sojourners. Because the societal weave was based on familial relationships, the societal welfare demanded that households offer temporary shelter and food to anyone who was brought by life circumstance into a household's territory at the end of a day.”
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