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Posted on January 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

“Don’t be afraid,” she said. “The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.” Yes, I thought. The good face pain. But the great, they embrace it. Shards of Honour: Aftermaths by Lois McMaster Bujold

Posted on March 1, 2015 Leave a Comment

Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared […]

Posted on February 16, 2015 1 Comment

“How many walking the earth know exactly why they breathe and understand exactly what they must do before passing into the afterdeath.” Acacia: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham

This is something we have never told mortals. Paper and ink are weak structures on which to build the framework of magic. Breath and sound aren’t much better, yet we godlings willingly confine ourselves to those methods because the mortal realm is such a fragile place. And because mortals are such dangerously fast learners. But […]

Posted on January 7, 2015 2 Comments

“Once there was a city of women. Its rulers were women, as were its judges and advisors. Female architects had laid out its streets and houses, and female masons had raised them. Its army was well provided and well trained, for though the city was isolated, in a remote desert region, it had had enemies […]

Posted on December 28, 2014 6 Comments

“A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.” The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Posted on September 13, 2014 1 Comment

“I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.” ― Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

Somebody once said–I’ve forgot who–said you can take away a man’s gods… but only to give him others in return. […] Wasn’t until after I’d left the seminary that I understood what that really meant. You don’t walk away from a thing you’d thought you believed your whole life without the loss of it leaving […]

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. […]

“All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give […]