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“Look to your records, cleric. Honor is a light that brings trouble. Shadows are safer by far.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“what animorph did you want to be? i wanted to be the boy who turned into the bird limp in the dog’s wet mouth, holding me toward his human saying, i made this for you.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“I miss them. all the dead. how young. how silly/ to miss what you will become. I apologize.”
― Danez Smith, Homie