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Surely I am old enough to know that there’s no point in wanting anything, she thought.
–Earth Logic (Elemental Logic)
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Tag Archives: Acceptance
Defying Expectations of Existence
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I find it rather hard to accept that I’m not supposed to exist.
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
Triumphant Suffering
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The mayor’s wife was just one of a worldwide brigade. You have seen her before, I’m certain. In your stories, your poems, the screens you like to watch. They’re everywhere, so why not here? Why not on a shapely hill in a small German town? It’s as good a place to suffer as any…The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
–The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Note: This book is narrated by Death. The plot occurs during WWII. It is a very good book, with both humorous and serious aspects.
Strip Search Is Normal
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The bouncer was inspecting people’s bags and backpacks before letting them in. That was the only sign that something unusual had happened. No one protested—we’re all inured these days to being searched. Pretty soon, we’ll have to get undressed before we walk into our apartment buildings at night, and we’ll probably submit to that without a murmur.
–Body Work (V.I. Warshawski Novels) by Sara Paretsky
Can’t Fix It, Got To Stand It
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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.
–Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Unfair?
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In honor of Zombie Awareness Month I am posting extra quotes from World War Z – Enjoy!
“I try not to be angry, bitter at the unfairness of it all. I wish I could make sense of it. I once met an ex-Iranian pilot who was traveling through Canada looking for a place to settle down. He said that Americans are the only people he’s ever met who just can’t accept that bad things can happen to good people. Maybe he’s right.“
–World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Wild Boys, Witches and Roast Squirrel
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Sarah visited the boys every day, and although at first she was worried about them being out on their own in the Forest, she was impressed by the network of igloos they built and noticed that some of the younger Wendron Witches had taken to dropping by with small offerings of food and drink. Soon it became rare for Sarah to find her boys without at least two or three young witches helping them cook a meal or just sitting around the campfire laughing and telling jokes. It surprised Sarah just how much fending for themselves had changed the boys—they all suddenly seemed so grown up, even the youngest, Jo-Jo, who was still only thirteen. After a while Sarah began to feel a bit of an interloper in their camp, but she persisted in visiting them every day, partly to keep an eye on them and partly because she had developed quite a taste for roast squirrel.
–Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk by Angie Sage
Endless Remaking
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“Their chittering calls to one another vied with the sound of their endless remaking of the world. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
Not Mine to Choose
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“She is a person in her own right, and she does not belong to me. I do not get to choose what she becomes just because I can’t deal with who she is.“
–Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3) by Veronica Roth
Ownership and Mortality
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“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.”
-The Fault in Our Stars by John Green