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Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them. —ROSCOE AVANGER, Sweet Mallow
“How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? How are we ever to break the cycle of violence and rage? Can terror coexist with justice? Does murder call for murder, despair for revenge? Can hate engender anything but hate?”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“The absolute quality of hate explains any human action even if it throws something inhuman around it.”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway).”
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single crow in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a Cheeto®.”
― Feral Creatures
― Feral Creatures
“For it was their world, not Man’s. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.”
― The Sands of Mars
― The Sands of Mars
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