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“But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester—perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence—a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb calling on someone else’s home?”

I’m already in love with this. Sometimes I read/watch something and curse it because it does what I wanted to do in a story of my own, but those are things I usually end up loving in the long-term, because they give structure to half-formed notions and ambitions