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“and I know I was going somewhere with this, I just seem to have followed the sentence into a blind alley only to wake up later with a headache and my pockets empty of spare vocabulary. Again. Where was I when I lost you?”
― Echoes of the Ancients
― Echoes of the Ancients
“Summerisle also removes the ability to consider things trivial. Every choice becomes potentially disastrous, even saying hello. Most known sapient species require triviality; the lack of it is devastating to the psyche. And devastating the psyche is a necessary component of many kinds of mind control.”
― Rogue Ship
― Rogue Ship
“You're cold."
"Listen, Mister Damn-the-Torpedoes—"
"No. It was a compliment. Cold, ethical people save more lives than hotheads." He forced himself to look halfway relaxed. It didn't really work. Like it or not, he had an edge showing; he didn't think of himself as harmless, not at the moment, and it was visible somehow. "It’s a trait I’ve tried to cultivate myself, especially," a split second of distress, not quite a wince, "in the last three years. Can’t say I’m all that good at it.”
― A Normil Day
"Listen, Mister Damn-the-Torpedoes—"
"No. It was a compliment. Cold, ethical people save more lives than hotheads." He forced himself to look halfway relaxed. It didn't really work. Like it or not, he had an edge showing; he didn't think of himself as harmless, not at the moment, and it was visible somehow. "It’s a trait I’ve tried to cultivate myself, especially," a split second of distress, not quite a wince, "in the last three years. Can’t say I’m all that good at it.”
― A Normil Day
