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Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate.
I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

— Libba Bray Going Bovine (2009)

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People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really.

Going Bovine (2009)

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”

Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime.

Going Bovine (2009)

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.”

Going Bovine (2009)

You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.

Going Bovine (2009)

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