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1 " Love is so rarely enough. The poets told a lot of lies. "
― Seanan McGuire , Angel of the Overpass (Ghost Roads, #3)
2 " Let my roots grow strong and my skin grow thick, that I might stand fast against all who would destroy me. "
3 " Love isn’t always a good thing. Love can be dangerous: toxic and corrosive and cruel. People act like love is one of the great positives of the universe, but those people usually haven’t seen love in the process of eating its prey alive. Love doesn’t let go, and love doesn’t forgive. Hate is worse, on the whole, but that doesn’t make love inherently kind. Nothing could. "
4 " Nothing good survives summarization. Not even pie, and pie is a universal constant of goodness. "
5 " I've always known people who thought that "Jesus take the wheel" was somehow comforting, and not a statement of fatalistic horror. Too many humans are happy to hand control over to the first cosmic power to stumble across them. "
6 " I guess I have to change with them. That’s what humans do, after all. We change. Leave the stasis to the gods. "
7 " Maybe it’s the perspective that comes with being dead, or maybe it’s the fact that we only see the bad ones, but it feels like there are more tragedies these days than there used to be. "
8 " Sometimes fairness isn’t the goal. Sometimes it’s all about survival "
9 " Toilets until the end of time is not the sort of thing most religions use as a selling point. "
10 " Hey, I’m a psychopomp in service to the Goddess of the Dead,” I say. “Reassuring isn’t in my tool kit. "
11 " When you’re an idea that walks like a woman, you get to be simple if you want to. Persephone is simple. All the divinities I’ve met have been simple. Oh, they have depths and undertows. They can get complicated real fast if that’s what they feel they need to do. But on a basic, “how difficult do I need this to be” level, they’re simple. "
12 " for all the women I’ve become "
13 " The living always privilege their guilt above the safety of the dead. "
14 " Whether it’s a promise or a punishment doesn’t much matter. "
15 " Self-washing cars would be all the rage if we could find a way to create them without needing to bind a human soul to the frame. "
16 " I know I've been shot so few times because I look like a pretty young white girl. That's a shield and a protection in a surprising amount of America-- even more now than it was a couple of decades ago. I thought it would be better by now. "
17 " is a one-man PR disaster for the afterlife. "
18 " Can this night get any more unpleasant? That’s not a question a smart person asks out loud. So I don’t. "
19 " I slide in the driver's seat and run my hands across the wheel as his radio dial spins and lands on a country song about missing your girl when she's gone. I don't recognize the singer, and the lyrics could have been written any time in the last century. Country music is like that when it's not misogynistic and jingoistic and tedious. "
20 " It hurts like hell. I wish being dead meant an end to pain. That would be a nice trade-off, considering how many other things end when you die. Instead, it just means pain is . . . muted, sometimes. "
