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Catherine
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Nothing is fair, except that we try to make it so. That’s the point of humans, maybe, to fix things the gods haven’t managed.
“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Normal People
“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“You can never want too much. That’s how they silence us,” I said. “They told us we were lucky to be in the penal colony instead of the æther. Lucky to be murdered with NiteKind, not the noose. Lucky to be alive, even if we weren’t free. They told us to stop wanting more than what they gave us, because what they gave us was more than we deserved.” I picked up my jacket. “You’re not a prisoner any more, Arcturus.” Warden looked at me in silence. I left him in that ruined hall with the music echoing above him.”
― The Mime Order
― The Mime Order
“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”
― The Mime Order
― The Mime Order
“For me, becoming a griever looks like instant membership in some kind of cosmic motorcycle club, a crew learning how to live with the kind of mind-bending reality that the horizon line is ever expanding; that, despite the heartbreak of certain circumstances and the overwhelmingness of life's hardest chapters, you can find the appreciation, the focus, the curiosity, and the friendship to keep riding the road ahead. This cosmic motorcycle club you're now in is a group of people with a knowing gaze; think less pilly sweater and more weathered leather, less curling up for tea for a good cry and more clinking glasses with people who get it, in the round.”
― Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life after Loss
― Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life after Loss
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