They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

Paolo Bacigalupi
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  1. The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives–their avatars–on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or...

  2. The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

  3. You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

  4. Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend.

  5. Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

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