While fear of pain is a natural human reaction, it is particularly dominant in our culture, where we consider pain as bad or wrong. Mistrusting our bodies, we try to control them in the same way that we try to manage the natural world.
“I guess they train you not to feel things, the scars left behind. In the Parthenon. Rock-hard warrior angels, all that."
"They train us to talk about it. They train us to heal, and not to deny we're in pain. Rock-hard is brittle.”
― Shards of Earth
"They train us to talk about it. They train us to heal, and not to deny we're in pain. Rock-hard is brittle.”
― Shards of Earth
“Olli felt she’d seen enough shit for one day, but then the abiding lesson of the universe was there was always more shit.”
― Eyes of the Void
― Eyes of the Void
“This is... you're certain, Faith?" When I nod, his face splits into a boyish grin. "A child."
"Or a roasted chicken. You guess which one.”
― Bound to the Battle God
"Or a roasted chicken. You guess which one.”
― Bound to the Battle God
“He had bred them and mutated them and played all sorts of God, and now they wanted to know why and he had no answer.”
― Children of Ruin
― Children of Ruin
“A Great Dane can still make a Chihuahua pregnant,” Liz points out. “Guess which one you are.”
― Ice Planet Barbarians
― Ice Planet Barbarians
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