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“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”
“I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.”
“Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.”
“The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.”
“I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.”
“Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.”
“I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could. Say what you like of a belief...of a party...of a finance sys...”
“And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.”
“One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.”
“I am sorrowful. I am sorrowful that I happened to be born into a world where being disgusted with yourself was what you were supposed to be. I am sorrowful that my fellow countrymen feel that being...”
“I am penitent," says Vohannes. "I am penitent for all the relationships this shame has ruined. I am penitent that I've allowed my shame and unhappiness to spread to others. I've fucked men and I've...”
“Humanity's relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation - setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run - it doesn'...”
“Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It's like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don't always have to do it that way...”
“Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers...”
“When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?”
