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Someone tell me why my road
is eternally strewn with ashes.

— Sofia Samatar A Stranger in Olondria (2013)

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The truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.

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Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear.

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The Feast of Birds is dedicated to Avalei, the Goddess of Love and Death, of whom my master had said: “Not all that is ancient is worthy of praise.”

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