A tiger is a tiger not a lamb, Mein Herr

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"There might be more to pleasure than the absence of pain, but she couldn't prove it just now. The absence of pain, of other human beings and their needs pressing down on her, seemed paradise enough. A paradise just out of reach." 

(quote from Louis McMaster Bujold, Komarr. Picture via funaek's instagram)

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"Right. So at the dawn of puberty, she'd learned no one would defend her, she could not defend herself, and the only way to survive was to pretend to be dead. Great. And if there was a more fatally wrong move some awkward fellow could possibly make at this moment than to take her in his arms and try and comfort her, it escaped his wildest imaginings. If she needed to be stone right now because it was the only way she knew how to survive, let her be marble, let her be granite."

( Quote from Louis McMaster Bujold, Komarr. Picture via Majali Design and Illustration)