Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.
Христинаhas quoted2 months ago
not to have to call them by any name
Христинаhas quoted2 months ago
what is a human but will never be a person
talithahas quoted3 months ago
There are times when one has to bear the weight of the world.
talithahas quoted3 months ago
The purge had resulted in other benefits:
Lunahas quoted6 months ago
Owning slaves is prohibited. He remembers the allegations against a family that was later prosecuted for keeping ten female slaves in a clandestine workshop. They were branded. The family had bought them from a breeding centre and trained them. They’d all been taken to the Municipal Slaughterhouse. The females and the family became special meat. The press reported on the case for weeks. He remembers there was a sentence that everyone repeated, horrified: “Slavery is barbaric.”
Lunahas quoted6 months ago
He doesn’t clarify that she can order online.
Lunahas quoted6 months ago
“Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle.”
Lunahas quoted6 months ago
For Spanel, touching, chopping, grinding, processing, deboning, cutting up what was once breathing, is an automatic task, but it’s one done with precision. Hers is a passion that’s contained, calculated.