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quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 31m

You think you have nothing in common with Deborah Vance? No, you're the same!

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 1h

Hush. Hush. It’s all right. We’re together here. We’re all together. No one is going to be lost or left alone, and that’s good. Tell me how you are, Xuxu. Did you meet a nice girl out there?

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 2h

It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 3h

Serendure brought us together. Serendure the hardest of the seven passions, the unbreakable passion, the thing that passes between two souls which cannot help being the same shape. Call it infinite loyalty, call it inescapable abuse, whatever it is, it is serendure.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 4h

There is a wound that won't heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here, and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking of you, I tuck my hand under my weight.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes when I am 100 percent loneliness by volume, I pat Big Bargains’s head in the water and whisper to her the same thing that girl whispered to me when she got tired of kissing me and holding me while I shook like a loose wire.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 7h

At some point you gotta decide for yourself who you wanna be. Can’t let nobody make that decision for you.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 8h

Poverty obscures your face too. It obscures your talents, potential, even your distinctive voice; and if it goes deep enough, it eradicates you by degrees of hunger and degradation.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 9h

There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 10h

It's hard keeping your heart open. It makes you vulnerable. But it doesn't make you weak, and I have to believe it's worth it.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 11h

The beacon on the Hightower, do you know what color it glows when Oldtown calls its banners to war?

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 12h

“It bothers you, doesn’t it?” Mia said suddenly. “I think you can’t imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you’ve got.”

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 13h

Dreams didn't make us kings.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 14h

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 15h

Yesterday, I buried another squirrel.
Every morning, he’d gnaw on my plastic lawn chairs,
shavings accumulating across his tiny organs.
Is his death political? Everything is.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 16h

Hon. Oh, hon. My sweetheart. My sweet baby.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t believe in luck. I believe in us.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 18h

She's fun, she makes me laugh, I like her ridiculous plans. I think she's complicated and layered. I dunno.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 19h

There is a word I know. But I can't say it. I can't think it. I’ll just keep drawing horses. I'll just keep drawing horses. I'll just keep drawing horses.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 20h

Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 21h

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe what you need at your age is a broken heart.
He laughs and runs a hand through his bleached hair. I don’t know about that either!
Ever had one?
No! he shouts, still laughing, bringing his knees up to his chest.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 23h

And Baru saw her on the prow of her boat, coming closer, uniformed, upright, every inch in command, and reaching out to save her.
Aminata.

quote bot @wrdgardens.bsky.social · 1d

You're in a lot of them. In one of the recurring ones, we're in your living room, and I've just drank your drugged screwdriver... and you're screaming, asking me why I did it. Asking me why I have a horse's head instead of my face.