In Other Lands

“When you cared too much about one person, other people seemed to matter less, and sometimes you treated them as if they did not matter at all.”

PeopleCaringElliot SchaferLuke Sunborn

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“Is there some kind of taboo against seeing a woman’s breasts in human culture?” asked Serene. “Breasts are functional. They feed children. Whereas I know many men cultivate their shoulder and abdominal muscles merely to attract the opposite sex. Their chests are the ones that are more decorative and which it is less modest to display!”

BeautyGender Roles

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“You met me when I was sad, but I'm not a sad person, and I don't want you to like that sad person who wasn't me better than you like me.”

GrowthSadHopeful

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“Elliot finished his book in bed and pondered going to get another one. He only had so much time left, and he had so many books to get through.”

ReadingBooks

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“Elliot was trying to teach himself trollish via a two-hundred-year-old book by a man who’d had a traumatic break-up with a troll. This meant a lot of commentary along the lines of “This is how trolls say I love you. FOOTNOTE: BUT THEY DON’T MEAN IT!”

HumorBetrayal

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“I do not know if you are not interested, or protecting yourself, but you cannot guard yourself against the whole world. You only succeed in placing a barrier between yourself from the world." He hesitated. "I know that from personal experience.”

InspirationalPhilosophyBravery

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“What, you people expect women to tear apart their bodies and then go to all the bother of raising the children? That takes years, you know,” Serene remarked sternly. “The women’s labour is brief and agonizing, and the man’s is long and arduous. This seems only just. What on earth are men contributing to their children’s lives in the human world? Why would any human woman agree to have a child?” “The more she talks the more sense it all makes,” said Elliot. “Has anyone else discovered that?”

MotherhoodPregnancyFatherhoodGender RolesChild RearingChild Care

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“There isn’t any kind of relationship that’s all problem-free delightful unicorns. You can’t have a relationship without issues and prejudices. The way to be equals is if both people agree to be equals, and treat themselves and each other as equals, despite all that.”

Relationships

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“You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.”

LibrarySarcasmBook LoversSnarkElliot SchaferLuke Sunborn

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“It had been a great sadness to Elliot, that even in a magic land, humans could not do magic: that in no world could you solve any of your problems by lifting your hands and wishing. Apparently, it was always harder than that.”

FantasyMagicElliot SchaferLuke Sunborn

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“The only possible response to someone telling you that they wanted to be friends, or that you were a great friend, was gratitude. Elliot had been friendless long enough that he knew friendship was a prize in itself”

Friendship

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