“Silence was my sister's weapon. When people hurt or angered her, she never got loud like Mom or mean and smart-ass like me. Silence was how she fought back. It wasn't passive, or an act of helplessness: it was a cold cruel withering blade, lasting far longer than my mother's rage or my own antagonism, strong enough to make us practically beg for forgiveness every time. Except now her weapon had gone haywire, turned on herself, driven her from her home and her support system and into what-knew-what kind of danger.” Silence Book:The Art of Starving Source: The Art of Starving
“Life becomes significantly less stressful when you accept that your ignorance will always dwarf your knowledge.” HumorLife LessonsLife PhilosophyThoughtful Book:Blackfish City Source: Blackfish City
“I felt sad, then, for her, and angry at myself. I took that moment, that short time, to mourn, to be sad, to be angry, to feel emotions for her that I never let myself feel for me and mine, because we'd been born to this but she hadn't, and because people who only know suffering from stories are never prepared to find themselves inside one.” Empathy Book:Blackfish City Source: Blackfish City
“Every superhero, every Chosen One, goes through a painful and difficult process of Becoming. On this, all the relevant literature is in agreement. Ask any comic book aficionado, any movie buff. The heroes doubt themselves, even when confronted with irrefutable evidence. They've spent their whole lives listening to weak and powerless people who hate and fear anything that is different, who say that superhuman abilities simply don't exist, and they believe it.” BecomingHeroesSuperheroes Book:The Art of Starving Source: The Art of Starving
“They made this town theirs. And their magic is powerful. Their wards have held for almost two centuries.” Horror FictionSmall Towns Book:The Blade Between Source: The Blade Between
“If the twentieth century was shaped by warring ideologies, and the twenty-first was a battle of digital languages, our present age is defined by duelling approaches to oceanic city engineering.” Cli Fi Book:Blackfish City Source: Blackfish City
“To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see unspeakable suffering. But we could survive it. Overcome it. Surmount the limits of our flesh and our mortality and our separateness. Combine into some new kind of thing, some wobbly magnificent machine who could crack the very fabric of time and space.” HopeJusticeCourageActivism Book:Let All the Children Boogie Source: Let All the Children Boogie
“There would be time to tell Fell all of it. To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see unspeakable suffering. But we could survive it. Overcome it. Surmount the limits of our flesh and our mortality and our separateness. Combine into some new kind of thing, some wobbly magnificent machine who could crack the very fabric of time and space.” HopeJusticeCourageActivism Book:Let All the Children Boogie Source: Let All the Children Boogie