She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.
Libba BrayI had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
Libba BrayPeople think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History
Libba BrayIn books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?" "No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.
Libba BrayHe told me that once, in the war, heโd come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didnโt speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldierโs head. He didnโt do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.
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