from The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
like every reality that matters ultimately to human beings, is a reality of the mind.
16 November 2020
from Deeplight
It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness.
10 July 2020
from The Light brigade by Kameron Hurley
What I learned, as I looked back on those times, was that the lies are what sustained us. The lies kept...
21 April 2019
from Outside the gates by Molly Gloss
And he liked to feel himself part of that big family, to share in their noisy, open love.
1 February 2019
from Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
Her world is full of children and dings and action verbs, but I’m uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.
2 December 2018
from Tallgrass
Conservation biologists have given us a term for what we already knew – that many people are simply oblivious to the...
28 November 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an...
31 October 2018
from Us against you by Fredrik Backman
Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of...
31 October 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
It’s always the aggressors’ feelings we have to defend. As if they’re the ones who need our understanding. Fredrik Backman –...
31 October 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
The comment section does what the comment section always does: smells blood and catches fire. Fredrick Backman – Us against you...
30 October 2018