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“And you thought your personality was sufficient birth control?”

”Are you suggesting I’m a few sandwiches short of a picnic?”

”…just carried on running up that hill, like Kate bleedin’ Bush.”

”But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”

“Maybe it’s because he whispers to the wind and hears its voice in return.”

”I have hated my mother for most of my life but it is her face that I see as I drown. “

”Birgitta Trotzig skriver: ”jag blir heller aldrig mera barnet i solen. Ingenting kan upprepas”

”Jag följde bloggen i flera år, och den blev min bild av moderskapet. En trygg bubbla långt ifrån verkligheten, antagligen långt ifrån hennes egen verklighet också.”

”How am I supposed to tell people they’re good enough as they are when I don’t think I am?”

…aouch, that hit hard.

“They just…don’t understand what you are. Or maybe they can’t fit you into their beliefs, and that scares them. The unknown makes us stupid sometimes.”

“I’m here to meet humanity, and these people you’ve described are just as much a part of it as you are. I wouldn’t be doing a very good job of pursuing my quest if I only welcomed the parts that were fun.”

“I don’t understand how you can keep riding past these,” the robot called down the road.
Dex knew what they would see in their mirror before they turned an eye to it: Mosscap standing in the middle of the highway, neck craned with awe at the flowered branches that were exactly like the thousand other branches they’d already passed by.”

”So you see now, Lady Yin, power is such a wicked thing. Razing everything in its path, consuming all, leaving none untouched. Not even the kindest of souls among us are spared, once they have had so much as a taste.”

”Do not pity me.
My life might be smaller than yours, but it is full of joy and worth living.
Do not assume I dream of greatness.
Do not assume I wish to be reborn in a different place, in a different life.
I wish only to admire the blossoms in this one.
Do not pity me - for I am exuberant!”

”Utöver Emil har jag bestämt mig för att inte berätta detta för någon. Någonsin.”

”Jag skulle ha förblivit singel, istället för att dra in honom i den här relationen som han nu är fånge i och som jag vet att han aldrig någonsin kommer orka lämna.”

”I appreciate the intent. I really do. But if you don’t want to infringe upon my agency, let me have agency.”

”A cloud of fireflies puffed up from the moss into the air, flickering flirtatiously.”

”I thought it would be a girl, couldn’t imagine anything but a girl, wondered whether that girl, at fifteen, would learn the precise method of measuring the area of a circle or what it felt like when you realized, mid-fuck, a grown man was inside you and you’d welcomed him to be there.”

“A pool made you feel invincible, but an ocean did the opposite. It reminded you what a fragile thing you were…”

”Healthy? Baby, life’s not all about whole grains and calories. I see how you treat yourself, tryna get ready for all your little swim competitions, making sure you’re all lean, and I respect that, I do. But don’t you go around thinking you better than us ‘cause you’d rather eat some lettuce than something that fills you up, something your body knows as well as the womb it came from.

”They taught me family could be something tender and loud and boundless.”

”Still, the thought stays with me through the quiet night. That we are determined by our landscape, that our lives are decided by the hills and the rivers and the trees.”

”You are not Gretel, you say. My daughter Gretel was wild and beautiful. You are not her.”

”But if I do know more than most, it’s because I read.”

”’Are all the flowers in Nana’s garden wild?’ I asked. ’All living things are wild’, Nancy answered. ’Even children?’ ’Especially children.’”

“Everyone you know is both good and bad, it’s part of being human.”

“You’re a disgrace to depression, and you don’t deserve to call yourself that child’s father.”

”You are good, child. Pure. Quiet. Kali does not want quiet. She wants storm. She wants ruin wrapped in silk.”

”This is an offering.
To the goddess who dances on corpses.
To the men who leap smiling into the void.”