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"'My brother asked the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it is all right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier by your side - a little happier, anyway - and children and all animals, if you were nobler than you are now.'"

main character is so annoying and stupid i refuse to believe there is any woman on earth who actually operates like this

narrator is lowkey so annoying in how hateful her internal monologue is

"A few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them, and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed. It was not desire, not even its barest scrapings. It was a sort of rage, a knife I used upon myself. I did it to prove my skin was still my own. And did I like the answer I found?"

silently weeping at work while i read