“The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.”
“Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.”
“Orphanage 127, Sector D, sub-district 28, Zone 7, the city of Plexus, Continental Center, Earth, 3,914 years after the End of the Age of the Uzgen.”
“The fuel for a great fire is all round them, ready to consume the evil of Plexus; we just have to wait for the spark.”
“It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!”
“No,” Abigail said in a low voice, “but I can save one.”
“All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.”
“They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.”
“Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.”
“In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.”
“And you got to blow up that awful wedding,”
“I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.”
“I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.”
“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”
“So the dickhead had a name. Daemon—seemed fitting. And of course his sister would be as attractive as him. Why not? Welcome to West
Virginia, the land of lost models.”
“Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.”
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