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“It was men, not God, who had done those things...”
“We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.”
“And there is good money to be made when things are bad.”
“There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.”
“Light doesnt always keep the dark things away, Nyx said.”
“You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.”
“The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldnt she unmake it again?”
“Asking men to cut away their feminine traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their masculine traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us h...”
“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. Yes, these men...”
“I can think of only two movies with women killers were meant to sympathize with, and both because theyd been sexually assaultedThelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I dont imagine anyone...”
“I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before. How is it we can bear to l...”
“Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives”
“We can pretend all we like that women are equal, ut as long as men and women are continually encouraged to supress the broad aspects of their humanity that we decry as "feminine", we're all screwed...”
“I spent a great deal of my ilfe trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was misereable. It served no purpose. And they still came for me. It made me even easier to dismiss, to overlo...”
“Young white men in the eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old range are often coming to grips with the fact that life isn't as easy as they were promised. I've been there myself. When you realize that li...”
“If you think theres a thinganythingwomen didnt do in the past, youre wrong.”
“He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in.""You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said.”
“Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.”
“Just keep in mind," Liaro said, "they're not going to remember the words. They'll remember how you made them feel. Make them feel something.”
“Most people who watch a fight think it's all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, yeah, sometimes it looked that way. But telling somebody that you won a fight by hitting the other...”
“What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?”
“Ahmed turned, and leaned into him. Kissed him on the mouth again.Im pretty fucked up, Eshe said.Its a good thing Im perfect, then.”
“And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her, this is love. This is what she does to someone she loves. And I wonder if I am any better, beca...”
