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“Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.”
“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry...”
“But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of th...”
“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnakenot a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were havin...”
“For most of the hours of the dayand most of the months of the yearthe sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and st...”
“Who asked them dern pigs? he said. I guess they tracked us, Augustus said. Theyre enterprising pigs.”
“Jake, youre a dern grasshopper, Augustus said. You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today youre talking California.”
“One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newts surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didnt scent them. It was a beautiful dayno clouds in t...”
“Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.”
“But when hes cut, I bleed.”
“While never violating our uniqueness, we move together, united in heart and soul. Our greatness is unleashed in the context of community. When we move together, God is most perfectly revealed in us.”
“Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his sid...”
“As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?”
“The very first thing I saw was his eyes, bluer and brighter than the sea itself. They gazed at me, so dazzling, and for an instant I couldn't even feel the pain. I was too overcome by the handsomen...”
“Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat...”
“War doesnt start with an explosion.It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.”
“For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue," a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana, and by extension Barrayar, "acquiring a reputation as a slick and dangerous m...”
“The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excus...”
“everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.”
“The best to do with a death was to move on from it.”
