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“What am I dying for?”
“Strange world isn't it?”
“Humans were always surprising me.”
“He thinks things through too much.”
“How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?”
“I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.”
“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
“Eight full lives, I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partn...”
“Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition.""But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen.Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, ...”
“Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.”
“Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for”
“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology”
“So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, chang...”
“Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.”
“Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?”
“After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.”
“How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?”
“Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.”
“This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be s...”
“My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.”
