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“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”
“ theres a difference between having no one because youve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.”
“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”
“Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, E...”
“Im never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a we...”
“I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You...”
“So she quit working to make sense of things we dont realise it, but its hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened ...”
“[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THATS EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]”
“What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if shed ever told him that, and if so, what he had to say about it. Someone you made up turns around and tel...”
“I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things Ive thought and found all on my own on my own, not through you.”
“In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, This is land," and point, and This is sky," and point, but the eyes cant discover the...”
“And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him shoul...”
