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"Name no names! The very walls are spies. Describe him, if you can."

She began hesitantly, "He is young and tall, Highness, and well favored, with eyes like the night—"

She stopped in confusion at the amusement on the king's face. "He was not described quite thus by the last messenger—who was elderly and male," said Thutmose drily.

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!! mara. girl. get a grip pls

"where your voice can be transformed into a bird and then stolen"

"At the top of the hill, Josie stopped to recover her breath, but the boy didn't greet us or even look our way. He had in his hands a circular device, and was looking at the sky between the two houses where a group of birds was flying in formation, and I quickly realized these were machine birds. He kept his gaze on them and when he touched his control, the birds responded by changing their pattern."

"How they got here or where they came from, he couldn't guess; and far from being millionaires, he had a feeling they didn't even use money. So, in spite of the trees Nurse Jackson had pointed out, this couldn't be in America, where money was so important. Where in America were people so smart they could draw power from the air, and so honest they didn't use locks to keep strangers from entering?"

"When you are in Egypt, you worship Isis; when in Anatolia, you kill a lamb for Cybele. It does not trespass on your Athena still at home. And how would such a man go home again, to his fireside and his olives? His domestic harmony with me was closer to a sort of rehearsal, I realized."

"Now that Medea had named my loneliness, it hung from everything, clinging like spiderwebs, unavoidable. That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool. I helped Prometheus, I reminded myself. But it sounded pathetic even to my ears. How long would I cling to that handful of minutes? It did not matter what I had done then. Prometheus was on his crag, and I was here."

"While the exact place to draw the line is arbitrary, the idea that there are dietary patterns that cause disease and others that don't is not arbitrary. And it's also not arbitrary to propose that food produced for profit might be designed, deliberately or inadvertently, to make us consume it to excess."

"Urine spills down the girl's legs, splashing on the ground. She convulses slightly. The woman detects the Tyrant's libidinous energy, flickering like a tongue at the girl's viscera. Its caresses more intimate than any lover's, stimulating her every organ into erogenous zones, moving like peristalsis through the glistening coils of her insides. Rosa sways, her eyes bright with exquisite pain." #horror #ick

"I spend my yard sale tours trying my best to see these things that others pass by, to spot an object on a table that has lost all connection to its identity, or maybe a better way to say it is that it has been so flooded with someone else's identity that it has entirely lost its own."

"There I was, eight years old, standing by myself in the middle of the playground, totally still with the windy air, the diamond-patterned fence, the melting cracker taste in my mouth. Tracking. How the other kids running around thought I was still frozen from some long-past game of tag, and on the way back to class, had swatted my shoulder to unfreeze me."