“Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.”
“Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel’enedra. Love must ever live free.”
“You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.”
“Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.”
“How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.”
“Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.”
“Terrible’s eyes narrowed; he gave Chess the kind of look most people reserved for ax murderers. Ax murderers who killed children. And kittens.”
“See I keep thinking you smart, you keep proving me right.”
“Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.”
“I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.'
Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.”
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