“I am not some genie, bound to your whim.” He pushes off the tree. “Nor am I some petty forest spirit, content with granting favors for mortal trinkets. I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars,
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“Kevin Phillips, a Republican analyst of national politics, wrote in 1990 that the Democratic Party was “history’s second-most enthusiastic capitalist party.” [ … ]”
― THE INDISPENSIBLE ZINN
― THE INDISPENSIBLE ZINN
“better to know them than face the consequences of ignorance.”
― The Hidden Dead
― The Hidden Dead
“If you have to punish people, try to punish only the guilty. Sin and guilt are not always the same thing, but it took me many years to work that out.”
― The Hidden Dead
― The Hidden Dead
“Oh, how naturally teenagers took to self-destruction! To the bottomless sensation of waiting, no new messages from the message machine, all manner of restless ennui. To be young was to long for the future, to grieve it and fear it in equal measures.”
― All Manner of Thing Shall Be
― All Manner of Thing Shall Be
“Age does not come quietly. You will find that out soon enough.”
― Men of Bone
― Men of Bone
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