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“Sentience is nothing but a theater for grief”

“You know how something can seem bearable, and even seem good, until it’s over and you realize it was awful?”

"How does a sparrow destroy a mountain? One pebble at a time."

"She turned to the back section about the trials, and read about Charles Manson getting sentenced to death over and over again as if it were a bedtime story. She needed to reassure herself that not all men got away with it, not every time."

“The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are 13 you have done twenty years of taking in the laundry of the world.”

“Empires preserve their power with the stories they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t- the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out”