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"Who tells you to be quiet all the time?" Laurie's words are a low, thickened spill of warm honey. "Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn't know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they should be disturbed."

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"In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well aware that they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.

“To say that he was a playwright is to offer an even harsher warning to the reader, for no one is a better liar than a man who has warped lives and passions onto something as grotesquely artificial as a stage.”

“We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about who we pretend to be.”

“Do not own the guilt. You didn’t cause it, and you are not responsible for it.”

“The dead have a right to privacy”

“They are designed to be robust, to hold us upright and to give us form, so it is logical that they should be the last sentinels of our mortal life to bear witness to the way we lived it.”

“So don’t feed the nightmares. Don’t let yourself panic. Don’t give the Capitol that. They’ve taken enough already.”

The Mabinogion is my favorite so far