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Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.
back then I still thought there was a self to lose, not knowing that one never owns the self.
You are alone. But it makes your heart sick to be alone. We do not have this in common. Learn not to need people.”
she told the Leopard to take me out and teach me archery. All I learned was that I should try something else.
“Cursed a day it going to be when your mind catch up to your mouth.
Of all the terrible features of your form, shame is the worst.”
You are the world’s worst liar and the only face I trust.”
Cannot make fellowship with men. A man alive is just a man in the way.
people who oohed to other people’s aahs.
she was just looking through clothes and tusks and scents to find herself. The thought was a wild animal.
I feeling all the offense you should be feeling for yourself.”
I liked that he only needed himself to laugh at his jokes. I saw it in people who had to endure other people.
he had the knotty, violent crotch scar of a eunuch.
I sit and eat with you, and there is love between us that until now was the kind we never had to declare.
I wish he were not so eager to show me he is quick-witted. Few things I hated more than to have a sentence cut off by somebody throwing wit.
I looked at the Ogo and thought of a time, perhaps soon, when I would need a person to hear me pull the darkness out of my own heart.
This old bastard was becoming my favorite person in Kongor who was not a buffalo.
A man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.
“You said you are from the East?” “No, my skin went pale when all the colour washed off.”
Truth is truth, and I do not own it. It should make no difference to me who hears it, since him hearing the truth does not change it.
“Wearing myrrh is part of everything, Tracker.”
people who are by far the most open yet the least friendly people
you don’t have to keep making malice with people right beside you,”
man should never turn down great sport or great adventure,
When you last see rain in Fasisi?” “And yet there are trees.” “Defeat is not the problem. Victory is.”
“I miss you, sister,” he say. “I miss me too,” she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when to blow out that wick so she don’t shine too bright around a man, even if the man be her brother.
“How you have no friends mystifies me,” Mossi said.
“Your eyes still don’t know when your lips lie.”
all men are cowards, and men together only added fear to fear to fear.
