. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood
A word after a word after a word is power.
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
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