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“Oh my God! Sam said again, his voice shaking. Ive given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.”
“Curse you, cheap beer. Must find miso in tiny packet.”
“It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.”
“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.”
“Haven't you noticed most of your fairy tales take place in the woods? a man a few feet from me says. He stutters and lets a belch escape him. That's why we're out here. We were hoping Jimmi would b...”
“In the cool dark basement, she whispers, "It's not Ralph, is it?"Cabel's quiet for a moment, as if he's thinking, "You mean like Forever Ralph? Uh, no.""You've read Forever?" Janie is incredulous. ...”
“Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.”
“They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.”
“If theres no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?”
“I begin to cry as my walls of my resolve break down. I don't know how long I can hold on. The pain is horrid and I curl into myself wrestling with a wish to die and a wish to live. Both have their ...”
“The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.”
“When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then i...”
“He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.”
“Its a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . By this act, I bring one death into the world. One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . ....”
“Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.”
“But the English are different, and they dont know how to be other than different.”
“If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.”
“Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.”
“When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I l...”
“His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his closet door to discover that Zap the Cat, having penetrated the security of Vorkosigan House thr...”
