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“We study the past so that we may know the future. Why not study abroad, so that we may know ourselves?”

Self Past History Identity

Book:On a Red Station, Drifting

Source: On a Red Station, Drifting

“It’s this place, this wretched place, where they never stop watching, where they never stop judging. It makes monsters out of us.”

Community Family Judgement Privacy Surveillance

Book:On a Red Station, Drifting

Source: On a Red Station, Drifting

“If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?”

Fire Unhealthy Relationship

Book:Fireheart Tiger

Source: Fireheart Tiger

“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend.”

Death Poems Aztecs

Book:Servant of the Underworld

Source: Servant of the Underworld

“I still couldn’t banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a man could desire or aspire to, a woman who would suck the marrow from your bones and still leave you smiling.”

Book:Servant of the Underworld

Source: Servant of the Underworld

“She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything.”

Darkness Sacrifice Unhealthy Relationship

Book:Fireheart Tiger

Source: Fireheart Tiger