Rita Chang-Eppig

Deep As the Sky, Red As the Sea

Lindsay

As far as she was concerned, honor was scarcely different from stupidity.

All anyone could do in this world was try to stay alive and pray that, when the time came, Heaven would overlook whatever crimes one had committed to survive.

How full of nothing all humans are, Shek Yeung thought absently, just bits of substance drawn and held stubbornly together by will, animal habit, and the fear of what comes after.

I feel remorse for some of the things I’ve done. I would do all of them again. What is remorse if not a privilege, the time to sit alone and cry for oneself?

This might be the most compelling argument for the existence of gods I have ever read… based on 39 years of personal anecdotal evidence… 

Apiecalypse Jen

The gods do not suffer happy mortals, because happy mortals don’t need gods. Something was going to happen to her, and it was going to be devastating.

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