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“He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It should be noted that I do not define my manhood through my love of women. There are lots of men who do so: their hunger to dominate feminine things, their power over their wives and daughters, are the building blocks of their maleness. That is not me. Yes, I could love a man if I ever found one who accepts me as I am, and I’ve dreamed of being so lucky—but I love women too. I love women as men are expected to, but the way only one who has ever experienced womanhood can.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I’m just confusing love with comfort, and I’m okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“But I think you should be careful, Batyushka, that God does not speak in the voice of your own wishing. We have never needed saving before.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Neither patience nor reason would draw the child from her, and when the women tugged him forcibly from her arms, she began to scream. The room dissolved into chaos. The mother flew at her neighbors, crying for her son. Most of the women had children themselves; they quailed at the look in her eyes.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“I go to church, Father,” she replied. “Anna Ivanovna is not my mother, nor is her madness my business. Just as my soul is not yours. And it seems to me we did very well before you came; for if we prayed less, we also wept less.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“But I don’t need a kingdom, Batyushka, just enough to feed my son through the winter. Marina Ivanovna kept the old ways and our children never starved.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“It doesn’t hurt anymore.” She forced her voice to calm. “No,” he said. “Some things I can heal. But I cannot heal gently.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“You are a devil!” whispered Konstantin, clenching his hands. All the shadows laughed. “As you like. But what difference is there between me and the one you call God? I too revel in deeds done in my name. I can give you glory, if you will do my bidding.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“My life is nothing,” said Pyotr. “I am not afraid.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Such is the strength of men,” said Morozko. He sounded strangely satisfied. “We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives. But your father could. His sacrifice bound the Bear. Pyotr Vladimirovich will die as he would have wished. It is over.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“The door opened. “Come in, Vasya,” Morozko said. “It is cold.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“More like the fear of motherhood--of knowing fear will never really leave you and still there are no other options, no other choices, because to love something is to care for it, to glimpse everything you will someday lose and still go on as if that loss will not destroy you. Because for better or worse, and so often it was worse, that love was as much a burden as a blessing. It was an anchor to all the grace and cruelty of this life.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“But I mean we ought to consider everything sacred, the entire world, not merely this artificially separated half! Thus alongside the divine service we should also have a service for the devil. I feel that would be right. Otherwise you must create for yourself a God that contains the devil too and in front of which you needn’t close your eyes when the most natural things in the world take place.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I feel...afraid. That's what it is, fear. I'm afraid for this child, this helpless, vulnerable child, and, in a strange way, I'm afraid of her, afraid of the power she has, precisely by her defenselessness, to bring pain, such terrible pain, to those who love her.”
― Jacqueline Holland

“Someone who can’t stop saying the word “trauma.” Trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people. If you try suggesting that they let go of their suffering, their victimhood, they act retraumatized. It’s like, yes, what happened to you is shitty, I’m not denying that, but why do you keep rolling around in your own shit? If they stopped doing that for two seconds and got over themselves, even a little, they might actually become who they were meant to be.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“All I’m saying is that trauma doesn’t get you a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free card. It also doesn’t necessarily confer wisdom, or the right to pontificate, which I realize I’m doing right now.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss