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Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Th...more

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretiv...more

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There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to...more

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But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of th...more

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I w...more

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Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue...more

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Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretiv...more