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Quotes About Fractures

I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.
~ Unknown
we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.
~ Mary Beard
se quisermos fazer um verdadeiro progresso (...), temos de retroceder a alguns dos primeiros princípios acerca da natureza da autoridade verbal, acerca do que a constitui e de como aprendemos a ouvir a autoridade quando o fazemos. E em vez de empurrar as mulheres para as aulas de dicção para ficarem com um tom agradável, profundo (...), devíamos pensar mais acerca das clivagens e das fraturas que subjazem nos diálogos dominantemente masculinos?
~ Mary Beard
The open spaces are almost too raw to take in — lidless eyes of blackwater flashes, caribou moss sodden and spongy as a lung. It's as if the landscape's insides are all on the surface. Exposed stone cracked by millennia of frost, fractures that weren't properly set leaving a permanent hitch in the country's gait. Even as you walk its naked spine you can feel the island limping away from you. TRANSTRÖMER ON BRIMSTONE HEAD 1.
~ Michael Crummey
The open spaces are almost too raw to take in — lidless eyes of blackwater flashes, caribou moss sodden and spongy as a lung. It's as if the landscape's insides are all on the surface. Exposed stone cracked by millennia of frost, fractures that weren't properly set leaving a permanent hitch in the country's gait. Even as you walk its naked spine you can feel the island limping away from you.
~ Michael Crummey
Do you truly feel nothing?" she whispered. "Are you without fractures?" "It's better this way." His eyes kissed her with frost. "The day I feel is the day I die.
~ Nalini Singh
The Arrow Squad had to die. For some inexplicable reason, this midlevel telepath and field medic was its nucleus; cut him out and the resulting fractures would mean the rest would be far easier to eliminate.
~ Nalini Singh