Wesley Stace Quotes

#1. Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

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#2. When the two become the one
And the inside outside, the outside in
So that the male be not male nor the female female
Then will you see me.

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#3. You are undoubtedly of the opinion that men are superior to women. Esmond?"
"Well, I ... "
"You are wrong. Eve is superior because she was created after Adam. God didn't take backward steps, so Eve must be an improvement.

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#4. I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

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#5. They're not doing much for themselves. I'm sure they'd rather slip away, relax their fingers and float, but they can't. They're not allowed. Effort is so painful; our knuckles are white, yet we keep clinging. The alternative is suicide- and we are too fearful for that.

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#6. I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.

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#7. I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound until the injury is forgotten, but the infection festers, eating away, spreading.

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#8. too much detail can have a distancing effect

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