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“Another one of your quippy japes?”
“The best plans are always the simplest.”
“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”
“There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.”
“although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.”
“Curiosity is a descending stairthat leads to only who-knows-where.”
“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, li...”
“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can...”
“Chromataciasocietyruled by a colortocracysocial hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.”
“Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.”
“Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.”
“And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belong...”
“I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive...”
“The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.”
“She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild qu...”
“For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.”
“Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with etern...”
“7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.”
“I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will bl...”
“Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.”
“I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.”
“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”
