Leilani | Romance Recs’s Reviews > The Slantwise Histories > Status Update

"They've taken our histories,but they havent taken our stories. Listen.When they burn the books & drown the land,when even our gravestone are cracked, dug up,washed away ..when they have won - then all we have left is what we remember & what we whisper to one another[...]They killed her, but we wont let her die.She'll be more like a legend then,rather than historical fact,but whats a legend but history told slantwise

🔥"sometimes every choice is a bad one."

🔥"Because you cant mourn properly if nobody remember what you lost. Because you weren't robbed if nobody remembers what was taken."

"Names are just prayers mothers make to the future that the world will keep spinning on its axis, undying, for as long as you live "

"books need to be read quite as much as we need to read them."

🔥"Thoughts are far less flammable than paper "

"Sweetheart, if you could have saved me, I wouldn't be here."

...I originally read this particular short story a LONG time ago.
The quote hits differently now.

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"At 6, I'd thought love was a full belly. At 16 I'd thought it was wildflowers and gooseberries, and Mae Apple's mouth on mine. At 17, I knew better. Love is whatever you're willing to kill for."
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"Priests to call them demons. Then knights to slay them. The Bible and the gun. An old formula. Well proved."

"Even a thief and a liar."

Oof.
I freaking love her writing.