“I understand,� I said. “It’s not the box’s fault that it disappeared. But what can we do? It’s disturbing to see things that have disappeared, like tossing something hard and thorny into a peaceful pond. It sets up ripples, stirs up a
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“He didn't think people changed much—his people anyway. Their souls had been ripped apart trying to stop what could never be stopped, and they took a fierce pride in opening old wounds just to show they could endure them again.”
― The Serpent's Sage
― The Serpent's Sage

“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― A Man Who is Not a Man
― A Man Who is Not a Man
“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Mount Pleasant
― Mount Pleasant

“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
― The Location of Culture
― The Location of Culture
“The future can never be larger than the past," she said to his disappearing back. "What will happen can never escape what has.”
― The Serpent's Sage
― The Serpent's Sage
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