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I remembered a saying from my previous world: “Everyone has a story.” And unfortunately, a single human being cannot pore through them all.

Kanata Yanagino, The Faraway Paladin: Volume 2: The Archer of Beast Woods

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What happens next, is not meant for mortal eyes. The process of one Jellymaw consuming another is, I can only imagine, the sort of thing dark gods whisper to each other at their evil clubs of nefariousness to make each other shiver. It was loud. It was messy. It was not quick.

RinoZ, Between a Rock and a Carapace (Chrysalis, #4)

#RinoZ #Between a Rock and a Carapace #Chrysalis #evil

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You may be at a disadvantage, but your opponent won't know that. Don't be afraid of risk. Take that step into an uncertain future. Snatch the initiative away from your opponent.

Kanata Yanagino, The Faraway Paladin: Volume 1: The Boy in the City of the Dead

#fight #risk #Kanata Yanagino #The Faraway Paladin #The Boy in the City of the Dead

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Education about abortion is important, because it’s suboptimal to learn how to access one only when you need it, especially if you live in a place with limited or unequal access to abortion or where it is illegal.

Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

#Jen Gunter #Blood #abortion

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"Everything is a business transaction. You’re happy, you got something of value. I’m happy, I got something of value. It’s hard to quantify just how much you’ve gotten from this, just like I won’t quantify how much I’ve gotten from this."

Selkie Myth, Adventures in the Argo (Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, #2)

#Selkie Myth #Adventures in the Argo #Beneath the Dragoneye Moons #business transaction #value

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There are multiple ways to hide something. You could try for straight subterfuge— make the thing invisible and try to avoid getting too close. You could also hide it in plain sight—slip in by making sure you’re seen, but keeping your motives unknown.

Wandering Agent, Melody of Mana #5

#Wandering Agent #Melody of Mana #5 #hide #subterfuge #motives

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It's so dull to have only one use for something, whether it is an object or a person. Being able to change yourself at will gives you the freedom to be whatever you wish to be. Change is the very foundation of my world.

M. Alice LeGrow, Bizenghast Volume 3

#M. Alice LeGrow #Bizenghast Volume 3 #Bizenghast #manga #change #freedom

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Immortality is a funny thing. If given all the time in the world, the need to accomplish things suddenly vanishes, since there's always tomorrow...or next year.

Xkarnation, Reborn as a Demonic Tree (Reborn as a Demonic Tree #1)

#Xkarnation #Reborn as a Demonic Tree #Immortality

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In any social unhappiness, it was very tempting to solve the symptoms instead of the root cause. In fact, this was normally the cause back home, because the governments had no ability to read minds, and also, they were unable to communicate with themselves. Various departments were each like blind men touching an elephant, unable to form a complete coherent picture as they did not communicate.

spaizzzer, Tree of Aeons #3

#spaizzzer #Tree of Aeons #social unhappiness #government

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Advice blogs and pregnancy forums convinced me the hard part was over. Labor, birth, and then tada! Like magic, a child would appear in your arms, and you’d already love it and instantly know how to feed it. Who would have thought babies were born not knowing how to eat? How could you teach that to a being who could barely move? When would I stop feeling relieved that someone else took over surveillance duty? Did my baby even know me?

Emily Fluke, Death of a Fairy Tale

#Emily Fluke #Death of a Fairy Tale #parenthood #motherhood #babies

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“Half the battle is already won if you recognize a material for what it is. You don’t want to be the person who walks by an ordinary tree only to realize later it was ghost wood in disguise.”

ThinkTwice, The Burning Lake (Mark of the Crijik #4)

#ThinkTwice #Mark of the Crijik #The Burning Lake #battle

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If I was going to boil down the message in these first three retellings, it would be that we can’t wait for the prince; we must be our own champions.

Anne Bishop, The Lady in Glass and Other Stories

#Anne Bishop #The Lady in Glass and Other Stories #message #retellings #prince

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“It is the burden of those who lead to see what lies ahead and to guide them. Know that your actions will determine whether your friends and family lives or dies.”

spaizzzer, Tree of Aeons #2

#spaizzzer #Tree of Aeons #lead

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We used to believe the endometrium didn’t have nerve endings, so the actual sampling from the lining shouldn’t be painful, but some people find this part excruciating, while others, like me, experience a brief cramp. It turns out that some people have more nerve endings in their endometrium than others, and hence are more likely to find the biopsy painful. People with conditions that cause pain, such as endometriosis and adenomyosis, are more likely to have more nerve fibers and experience pain with biopsy. People who have pain with sex or pelvic pain might also feel more pain during these procedures.

Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

#Jen Gunter #Blood #endometrium #endometriosis #adenomyosis #nerve endings

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The day is the only unit of time that I can really get my head around. Seasons change, weeks are completely human-made, but the day has a rhythm. The sun goes up; the sun goes down. I can handle that.

Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

#Austin Kleon #Show Your Work! #10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered #day #time

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There was a saying that if you are the dumbest person in the room, allow the smarter ones to yap away their secrets and learn until you are the smartest. Keep your cards held close to your chest.

Xkarnation, Reborn as a Demonic Tree (Reborn as a Demonic Tree #1)

#Xkarnation #Reborn as a Demonic Tree #secrets

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But in a real battle, all actions came with risk. If you took a single bad hit, if your foot slipped just once, that alone could be the end of you. Death: the ultimate dead end.

Kanata Yanagino, The Faraway Paladin: Volume 1: The Boy in the City of the Dead

#battle #death #Kanata Yanagino #The Faraway Paladin #The Boy in the City of the Dead