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“I've read all of the old stories now "Red Blood and Dirty Gold", "The Winter Witch", "The Scarlet Varulv" and I want more. Though I want fantasy made-up, impossible things I don't want stories ...”
“Do you see the labyrinth out there?" She waved a graceful hand toward the garden. "Life is like that labyrinth, full of pathways that seem like the right way, but end up being detours. We go one wa...”
“All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.”
“I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]”
“I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.”
“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then that I didn't ever want to be like that. Whatever happened, life was ...”
“Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long ...”
“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuabl...”
“With Catty and Patrick's images in he side mirror waving from the steps of that house like Jethro and Ellie Mae, it occurred to me that something extraordinary had happened. I had effortlessly foun...”
“Society will not crumble if men take a turn at the dishes.”
“Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.”
“If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.”
“Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.”
“To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end,when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach,and the weather day after dayis flawless,and the forecastis hurricane.”
“Dont kiss me, she said warningly.I dont intend to, he replied, smiling a little. I dont have my whip and chair with me.”
“...a kid, maybe eight years old, ran up and poked her in the ribs with a plastic laser weapon, making electric zinging noises as he repeatedly pulled the trigger. Youre dead, he said victoriously. ...”
“Im Sam Donovan. I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. Im Jaine Bright. I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name. Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?”
“Living your life on your own terms is utterly glorious. It makes perfect sense to you, but you have to be willing to let go of everything else. It has to be okay if nobody else likes that, but then...”
“Victimhood gives us great moral superiority and entitles us to unquestioning sympathy while exempting us from examining any single one of our actions. A victim is utterly devoid of responsibility o...”
“Men and boys are constantly portrayed as predatory, sexist, their sense of humour is vilified and their behaviour is regarded as unacceptable. Factor in the constant diet we are fed of men as perpe...”
