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“No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead.”
John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuffed into the mouths of actors who pretended to be enamored. One could only pretend to love in language. True love was a woman sinking up to her elbows in her viscera.”
John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“She was going to have to socialize. Reading what humans wanted from each other was so much easier than when those attentions were directed at her.”
John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“There is no educational resource in the cosmos greater than a nerd who thinks you’re wrong.”
John Wiswell, D.I.Y
“[...]for hatred was the fear people let themselves enjoy.”
John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“[L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others.”
John Wiswell

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