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“How come all the spiders are men?” “Because then it feels more satisfying to squish them,”
It was an eternal feeling, this sense of being unwelcome. No matter where she was, Effy was always afraid she was not wanted.
effy is me
There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.
Why was it that an Argantian could study Llyrian literature, just because he was a man, but she couldn’t because she was a girl?
the privilege of just being a man
We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?
Fear could make a believer of anybody.
“You should know by now that I’m not a fan of doing things just because that’s the way they’ve always been done.” Preston set his jaw. “Or preserving things just because they’ve always been preserved.”
preston is also me
“You’d be surprised how much cognitive dissonance people are capable of.”
spot on
I don’t have much faith in the notion of permanence. Anything can be taken from you, at any moment. Even the past isn’t guaranteed. You can lose that, too, slowly, like water eating away at stone.”
I know that, deep down, there’s not much else to me but surviving.
