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“At the end of the week, you told me that you were going on a long trip, but someday you would come back and marry me.Arianna giggled. Did I really say that? she asked, mortified at her bold younger...”
“Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.”
“Oda once said that when you speak excessively, it isn't necessarily communicating, Jimmi says as he hunches over, resting his elbows on his knees. He yawns and doesn't cover his mouth.What does tha...”
“Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apa...”
“Change is possible.''Change is inevitable.”
“I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs cant be given.”
“When I go to describe something as remarkable as what I saw that day, I could only say it was a place of dreams. The water is crystalline clear, a mixture of opalescent colors and frosted with whit...”
“She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.”
“The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparra...”
“The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.”
“What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, like he was asking her a trick question. [Katherine] thought a minute. What DID she want to know? Wh...”
“God save me from another such victory.”
“The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but gradually. And yet it seemed to work for them somehow. They m...”
“Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.”
“When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.”
“At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?”
“There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.”
“Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.”
“On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured int...”
“Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for t...”
