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“I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.”

Inspirational Romance

Book:The Blue-Spangled Blue

Source: The Blue-Spangled Blue

“Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him? In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief. Love. Love was what drove him.”

Inspirational Romance Motivation Family

Book:The Deepest Green

Source: The Deepest Green

“When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.”

Poetry Healing Kintsukuroi

Book:Shattering and Bricolage

Source: Shattering and Bricolage

“This fifth and final sun will die, Like every sun before— But for a moment we laughed in its light, Like wind-blown petals Sparkling near an exile’s campfire Before the flames take them.”

Poetry Aztecs Fifth Sun

Book:Shattering and Bricolage

Source: Shattering and Bricolage

“Who could truly set His shield to rest? His throne? His mighty spear? Think on that. Remember it well, O princes. Who could lay waste to Tenochtitlan? Who dares assail the foundation of heaven?”

Poetry Aztecs

Book:Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry

Source: Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry

“In the place of the bells, where battle is waged, The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today. Dust yellows the air, our houses are smoking, The sobbing is rising—from the lips of your Chalcans!”

Poetry Aztecs

Book:Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry

Source: Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry

“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame alive”

Religion Responsibility Myth Ecology

Book:Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley

Source: Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley

“Don’t accuse others of eating when juice smears your face-fur.”

Tradition Exhortation Nakÿng Sayings

Book:The Deepest Green

Source: The Deepest Green

“Quick as birds to catch the bugs.”

Exhortation Nakÿng Sayings

Book:The Deepest Green

Source: The Deepest Green

“Mimicque—zombies—can only be killed with an iron or obsidian blade, so don't think you can just act like the wrestler El Santo in the 1970s film El Santo Versus the Mummies of Guanajuato. If a walking undead is after you, run. Let the experts take care of the zombies.”

Zombies Mummies

Book:Mexican Bestiary

Source: Mexican Bestiary

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The Deepest GreenRelated source material

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