Brynne Delerson
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Brynne Delerson
To do the thing that no one else can do, you have to make the choice that no one else would make. But it can’t be performative—you can’t fake it by choosing an unpopular thing, because if you do it arbitrarily, the choice you’re making will just be bad . It actually has to come from something real inside you, the place of knowing beyond language.
Ava • What We Talk About When We Talk About Taste
There was about him a concentrated focus, almost like a perfume.
J. M. Miro • Ordinary Monsters: A Novel (The Talents Book 1)
Closed shoes seem strange and painful in the heat, and in Fetter’s eyes, the weight and solidity of those boots make it clear that they are not footwear but weapons. They are not for walking, but for kicking, for grinding down, for breaking doors, for bruising bodies and the earth.
Vajra Chandrasekera • The Saint of Bright Doors
Now, there’s probably some poor reader out there who’s going to protest with some nonsense along the lines of “Um, well actually, humans are herd animals!” And that may be true. But more than anything else, humans have historically proved to be in-need-of-therapy animals.