“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight.””

— Libba Bray , Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 365

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American teen writer 1964

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