But a person can only do so much, and so there is value in sharing in another’s experiences vicariously through books or film.
“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Kushiel's Dart
― Kushiel's Dart
“..when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of my face in his face, though there was an echo of my voice in his voice, we were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― Count Zero
― Count Zero
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