Leah > Leah's Quotes

“This whole thing happened because you wouldn't face up to Gideon dying.' he said, which was a stab as precise as any Nonius had managed. 'I don't blame you. But where would you be, right now, if you'd said: She is dead? You're keeping her things like a lover keeping old notes, but with her death, the stuff that made her Gideon was destroyed. That's how Lyctorhood works, isn't it? She died. She can't come back, even if you keep her stuffed away in a drawer you can't look at. You're not waiting for her resurrection; you've made yourself her mausoleum.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“No one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

“Even the word itself, human, means flawed. It means everything is technically correct but some unanticipated trouble has fouled it up. If the assignment had been to be human, to fail, then I succeeded. But if it was to create a comprehensive document of life on Earth, I was always doomed. Language is pitiable when weighed against experience.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“When you're little, she faxes, sadness is a kid you can kick out of your game. A simple, fast-food feeling that leaves as soon as the bully is gone. Deeper sadness gets buried into one's coastal shelf, accessible only by your adult version.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging the complicity in the oppression of others.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria and other conversations about race?