Nenia Campbell
Writer
Quotes by Nenia Campbell
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Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.
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But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.
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For a moment, the cardboard sets come crashing down to reveal that squalling monster, reality, locked up in the confines of its man-made cage. It is a fearsome thing, beautiful, inherent only to itself. Faced with such naked, existential truths, I understand why humans worship flesh-eating monsters and bloodthirsty gods. But only for a moment.
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She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.
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We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.
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Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.
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I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.
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