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“I don’t need you to explain to me the concept of a magical land filled with fantastic creatures that only certain special children can enter. I am acquainted with the last several centuries of popular culture. There are books. And cartoons, for the illiterate.”
― In Other Lands
― In Other Lands
“And he did not want to be loved as a second choice, as a surrender. He had spent his whole life not being loved at all, and he had thought being loved enough would satisfy him. It would not. He did not want to be loved enough. He wanted to be loved overwhelmingly. (...) He had never been chosen, so he had never had a chance to know this about himself before now: he wanted to be chosen first.”
― In Other Lands
― In Other Lands
“It did not care about your belief system, your grasp on reality, the excellence of your analysis or your senses, for the anti-story of the story-creature became story by retelling effortlessly what lived at the core of you.”
― This World is Full of Monsters
― This World is Full of Monsters
“Am I a person or a weapon?"
Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person."
"You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.”
― Borne
Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person."
"You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.”
― Borne
“That’s the problem with people who are not human. You can’t tell how badly they’re hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don’t always know how to tell you.”
― Borne
― Borne
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