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“...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness.”
― A Cosmology of Monsters
― A Cosmology of Monsters
“Were we women so frail in the wake of men who swore they cherished us? Was a lover's betrayal more lethal than betrayal of oneself?”
― Desdemona
― Desdemona
“There were not words for what she felt, the depth of the emptiness, the breadth of the emptiness, the emptiness of the emptiness. Words could only cloak what she felt. Words were supposed to illuminate and clarify. Words were meant to communicate and and feelings from one person to another. But today words stood numb and in the way.”
― The Grammarians
― The Grammarians
“What can a woman do when scandalous gossip travels the world? If she defends herself, she sounds guilty. So I waited some more.”
― The Penelopiad
― The Penelopiad
“Travel light my child, as the Wanderer travels light, and his love will be with you.”
― Travel Light
― Travel Light
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