Top 80 Rivers Solomon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend to it.”

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52. “It was flattering to be thought of in those terms. As similar. As sharing something in common with not just one other, but a whole us. Since she was fourteen, she’d always been marked as different.”

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53. “This was always the case when people asked if you knew what something meant. They didn’t want you to know it. They wanted to be able to explain it themselves, to prove themselves bearers of esoteric knowledge.”

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54. “Aster pulled her feet up onto the stool she was sitting on so that her whole body was scrunched into a ball. “I see,” she said. She’d thought she’d trained her mind out of its predisposition toward excessive literalism, but there it was, persistent as ever, making a fool of her.”

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55. “To everyone I will ever be, and ever was.”

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56. “I have done at least one good thing: become a person my father would hate.”

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57. “No podemos entender a un pueblo que ha elegido por voluntad propia aislarse de su historia, por mucho dolor que imponga.”

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58. “We wait to be numbed by it, for the grief to become so much that we no longer feel it. That point never arrives. Our numbers reduce, and the rage grows.”

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59. “Who might she have been had she not spent the better part of her life in the minds of others?”

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60. “People believed whatever they needed to, to maintain a thread of power in a society that systematically stripped them of it.”

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61. “In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick.”

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62. “The point is what you do when you don’t have the details. Do you interrogate? Do you examine? Or do you settle for the obvious answer?”

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63. “My child,” Amaba said, frightened. “What sickness is this? What madness would cause one to put oneself in fatal harm purposely, knowingly? Surely, it cannot exist.”

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64. “She reached into one of the cabinets and got out an old box filled with amber vials of isopropyl alcohol. Expensive. Hard to find. She emptied them out one by one over herself, even over her shorn hair, until she smelled like medicine. Until she was a sterile thing no more sexual than a pair of sanitized scissors. That sharp too.”

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65. “Pretty was a strange thing to concern oneself over. Pretty was subjective and fallacious.”

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66. “Going against tended to end more rightly, more justly, than going with. People were wrong. Rules, most of the time, favored not what was right, but what was convenient or preferable to those in charge.”

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67. “There was an excitement coming from Giselle. She was standing on the edge of a new world and so ready to jump. How Lucifer felt upon leaving Heaven. He didn’t fall. He dove.”

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68. “She was a girl made of aches and she flung her body at the world in the hopes that something, anything, might soothe the tendernesses.”

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69. “Running had become her favorite mode of transport. She lived for that brief snap of true flight, both feet in the air at once. Jumping down a half-flight of stairs then catapulting down another. Aerial Aster. Sky Master Aster! Barely Avoiding Disaster Aster! There was less time lost in transport when she ran as fast as she could, no care for her own safety.”

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70. “Words mattered now, in the moment. They spoiled quickly when held inside, and what did they mean when offered too late but nothing at all?”

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71. “You’re a smart one. You know as good as me and as Flick that there is no Promised Land. Matilda’s an orphan, a daughter of dead gods. But Ancestors is real and their spirits are at work. Baby sun giving out is how they making a fuss.”

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72. “Dear Sirs,” Flick began before loudly inhaling, “On account of there being no heat down here in account of the being no electricity on account of the brand-new energy rations so thoughtfully and nobly and honorably imposed on the steerage decks by Sovereign Nicolaeus on account of the blackouts – Aster fell prey to a brief fit of hypothermia-induced delirium de spoke against you in her maddery. She’s healed up now so you don’t have to worry about it happening again.”

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73. “It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history.”

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74. “It was strange to be having such a conversation with her Amaba, discussing their varied interpretations of the history. What had always seemed certain to Yetu wasn’t so immutable. The living put their own mark on the dead. Goodness, how’d did she missed it?”

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75. “Living without detail long-term memories allowed for spontaneity and lack of regret, but after a certain amount of time had passed, they needed more.”

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76. “I had a sister named Inertia,“said Metusine. “Died. Ill from the day she was born. Mother thought if she named her that it would keep her alive. Keep her in motion.”

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77. “All that was left of a person’s life was recorded on paper, in annals, in almanacs, in the physical items they produced. To end that was to end their history, their present, their future.”

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78. “Everything burns up some time or another, even God Herself. That’s how She made the Heavens. She a phoenix. Like me.”

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79. “There was no talking Ollie and her ilk into believing Vern and her ilk were actually people. They were collateral damage in a useless battle waged to attain more power.”

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80. “When not properly fortified, a legacy is no more enduring than a wisp of plankton.”

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81. “There was no sense mourning that which no longer nourished.”

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82. “People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don’t want to be scrutable.”

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83. “I’m not maternal but that doesn’t mean I don’t love. I love Aster. I love all the girls and women I look after. It is hard to be in somebody’s presence for so long and not develop something like love.”

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84. “Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?”

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