‘I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all’,

prismatic,

It’s a puzzle that cannot be solved, isn’t supposed to be solved, because it is in the process of grappling with it that we discover the point for ourselves.

implacable

Perhaps in its own way the novel slyly demonstrates the natural peacefulness that a world without men might possess, but also suggests that this settling is the downfall of the women, that they do not go on searching.

extolling

These situations of confinement, of cruelty, of hopelessness, are not without precedent—we’re kidding ourselves if we think of these cruelties as ones unique to a fictional alien planet.

It is human to be afraid of death, of unimaginable pain, and it’s another kind of humanity to transcend it.

exhorted