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"I had no reason to doubt that she was; taking my hand at the wedding was nothing. Straight girls do that all the time. That's why being a lesbian is so confusing."

"Chinese medicine doesn't call the bowel 'the mother' for nothing. This is the system that nourishes everything and it isn't pretty or pink, girly or nice. In addition to life giving is is also dissolving, disintegrating, digestive and can be very ugly when it is not getting what it needs. One ignores the mother at their own peril."

"Just as their must always be someone to protect and defend our country and our families, the common soldier, who needs the kind of tough exoskeleton to do the job, there must also be someone, a healer who protects and defends our insides."

"Put another way, it is an ecological initiation. It's not about learning how to win or dominate something or someone else. It is about learning how to grow strong roots and to thrive in connection, cyclical, with everything else and this requires not being afraid of the dark. It requires working with life as it is, worms and all."

"through information, thorough literature, through the psych, through the self and this work is hard and slow. It is the dogged gathering of lost bones, lost wisdom, and the lost self. The search for that which has become hidden, veiled or cut off. First and foremost it is the search within oneself."

......Metaphors, dramas morals, lessons repeated over and over again. We don't just do this for art's sake, we do it for our sake. We need it and we need others to understand our story, without having to tell it ourselves over and over again."

"We are a species of story. We require it. The way we require food and water and shelter and air. Stories live at the core of how we construct our identities, our usefulness, our path, our purpose. ....

.....The feminine journey is one of continual conscious cycling through darkness into rebirth, learning to see and gather wisdom in the dark, rather than trying to slay the dark. It is the whole missing yen mirror in the great masculine yang."

"and as I continued to read and read, it became clear that this process, this story is not just a small yen dot on the ruling yang fish. Unlike the hero's journey, this is not one station of the quest. ...

“The grateful moon has granted the city of Lalage a rarer privilege; to grow in lightness.”

“If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.”

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”

“She cannot imagine a world where people who mean well can do any real harm. She cannot reconcile all these big, elaborate topics - multiverses and inevitable doom and life as a living city - with the simple reality of the Woman, who is a genuinely nice person. The world needs more nice people.”

“Padmini is Queens, land of refugees who’ve fled horrors, blue-collar people working themselves to death, and spare daughters mortgaged for an entire family’s fortune. She knows all about brutal choices and unavoidable sacrifice - and Manhattans question, cruel as it seems, is one that respects this knowledge.”

“Some part of her still hope for justice to prevail, and for her father to realize what a monster Conall is ... but the rest of her knows better. Her father has always been right: the only true justice is having the strength to protect oneself against invasion or conquest.”

“This isn’t the first time Bronca has been surrounded on all sides by those who would invade her, shrink her borders, infect her most quintessential self and leave only sanitized, deadened debris in their wake.”

“‘There are ways to subvert stereotypes that don’t simultaneously reinforce them. Good art should be more layered than just thoughtless regurgitation is the status quo.’”

“‘Nothing human beings do is set in stone - and even stone changes, anyway. We can change, too, anything about ourselves that we want to. We just have to want to.’ She shrugs. ‘People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.’”

“She doesn’t get English because English draws a distinction between the individual self and the collective plural, and wherever she comes from, whatever she is, that difference doesn’t mean the same thing. If there’s a difference at all.”

“Terror doesn’t always happen for good reason.”

“The fact that she applied these assumptions preemptively means there’s nothing he could’ve done to change them, but he still hates that he’s just confirmed her stereotypes.”

“Because we were just ordinary people going about our own business, and it bothered you to see us comfortable and unafraid.”

“‘God, I can’t wait to see which entire ethnic group they’re going to scapegoat in the wake of this one.’
‘Maybe it’s a white fit. Again.’
‘A ‘lone wolf’ with mental health issues, right!’”

“he knows, that cities are organic, dynamic systems. They are built to incorporate newness. But some new things become part of a city, helping it grow and strengthen - while some new things can tear it apart.”

“Daddy would’ve said it was okay - tears mean you’re alive - but Daddy’s dead. And I’m alive.”

“The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it; not until it kills you anyway.”

“What good does it do to be valuable, if nobody values you?”

“All those rural people who hate cities are afraid of something legit; cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a tear in the fabric of reality, like ... black holes, maybe.”

“Secret promote ignorance.”