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Poverty is in a thousand ways a death sentence, and Lou, who's had a happier childhood than Meredith, understands this deep in her soul, and it's a bone-chilling fear, the idea that if anyone ever casts her out of Eden, nothing she knows how to do is of any real value. The fear that being gifted only matters if you, yourself, are the right gift.
— Jul 17, 2025 07:23PM
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He wasn't old. I called him an old man in my head, but he wasn't old. It's terrifying, in that sense, how quickly you can disappear. How ineptly one person can love another without getting the time to make amends.
— Jul 18, 2025 01:01PM
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I joke about the abandonment of my personal experimental God, but really, you have to give it up for nature. It's almost better if it's all a breathtaking accident. It's a reminder that from chaos can come peace.
— Jul 18, 2025 09:43AM
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Eilidh hoped she had been paying enough attention. She had never been an expert before, as such a thing implied maturity and age; instead, she'd been only an ingenue, a protégée, a possibility of a person. A break on the horizon. It occurred to her that the chance to grow up was an appealing one, if terrifying.
— Jul 17, 2025 02:54PM
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He looked for it in his lovers from time to time in moments of desperation, but life has a way of minimizing the efficacy of imaginary voices that make loneliness gentler to bear. (All conditions are ultimately survivable, which is to say that despite grief, despite loss, Arthur did eventually grow up.)
— Jul 16, 2025 05:14PM
