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He hath disgrac’d me and hind’red me half a million; laugh’d at my losses, mock’d at my 50 gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath ...more
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Martha Wells
“think you’re emotionally compromised right now.” That was … that was so completely not true. Stupid humans. Sure, I’d had an emotional breakdown with the whole evisceration thing, but I was fine now, despite the drop in performance reliability. Absolutely fine. And I had to kill the rest of the Targets in the extremely painful ways I’d been visualizing.”
Martha Wells, Network Effect

Marjorie M. Liu
“He is not my father.”
“So said every unhappy daughter.”
Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen

“Any asshole can make a mean joke. It’s harder work to reach out further for the joke that’s funny and can’t hurt anybody.”
Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Margaret Atwood
“We’re stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we’re always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.”
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Just because the relationship ended doesn't mean it wasn't true or good or worth having. Everything expires eventually. Enjoy the good for what it was, not what it always has to be.”
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