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“The boy had never seen either river or sea. “I don’t understand,” he said, and the prophet said sadly that he himself was as ignorant as the boy, that he possessed nothing but bones and a chain and a wish to touch the truth. This longing for awareness he called the Practice.”
― Sofia Samatar, The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

“You want something that is yours. Something that makes you you and no other. I lost the shell. But I have that memory. I lost the emotion, but I have the memory of the emotion. I still have the story of it. And that’s enough. That’s all the ownership I need. I’ve learned I need nothing else for me to be me. Just the memory and the story.”
― Anton Hur, Toward Eternity

“To act onstage is to revel in the slipperiness of life, to be yourself and not yourself at the same time. It's the one time you can take two journeys at once.”
― Betty Shamieh, Too Soon

“Vitrine would have shouted curses at him again, but their eyes locked, and suddenly she no longer needed the words. A piece of herself, some dark and deadly and spiteful piece, flew from her and into his eyes, making her a part of him, and for a second time in as many seconds, he flinched in shock. His face was bloody, and her curse would live inside for as long as he would last, which was to say, she would live inside him forever.”
― Nghi Vo, The City in Glass