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“Behind her defiance was a terrible desperation: a woman who had always been able to simply physically impose her will on the world, who now had to ask its permission and the permission of her own body.”

HEARTBREAK OF THE CENTURY

Beautiful and heartbreaking

“Oh, you fucker!” Is the most hilarious and apt reaction to betrayal I have ever read.

“That is the way things are.”

“Things are the way we make them.”

“She grasped that whatever that alien, artificial tangle of language is doing, it has a divine function: drawing them out of the bestial and into the sublime.It is the hand that places Understandings within the mind and tissue of life, so that generation may become greater than the last. ‘So that I may know you,’ Portia reflects…”

Never expected to be so enamored with giant spiders.

Only just started and I’m enthralled.