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“But some of our choices are bigger, not massive, but bigger, and they have an impact on the people around us: shall I help that old lady with her shopping, or not? Shall I say something kind to you when I meet you? Shall I laugh at your ideas, shall I walk through the world gently, or shall I push everyone aside?”
― White Crow
― White Crow
“Children," said Theodolphus Rose, "are adults who haven't yet learned to make fear their hand puppet.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“Don't follow after me, Tian-Tian." She caresses my face, but her fingers crumble into smoke before I can cherish their warmth. "There's nothing here. It's not a solution. Not an escape. I'm not free. I'm just gone.”
― Iron Widow
― Iron Widow
“never unlearned to respond to attack by turning to stone. Looking back now, I wonder how many of the problems in my marriage were due to . . . well.” She smiled, and blinked. “My mother was wrong, I think. She certainly ignored her own pain for far too long. But I’m stone all the way through, now, and it’s too late.” Miles bit his knuckles, hard. Right. So at the dawn of puberty, she’d learned no one would defend her, she could not defend herself, and the only way to survive was to pretend to be dead. Great.”
― Komarr
― Komarr
“Being able to skip two seconds could be quite useful–if you picked the right two seconds. Like when you're at the dinner table with your parents and your mom has just said something sarcastic about your dad being passed over for promotion, and you just know your father is about to let out a brief but lethal burst of resentment. You need godlike timing to pick the exact instant when the barb is being launched. There are a hundred leading indicators: the scent of overcooked casserole, the sensation of the room's temperature dropping slightly. The ticking of the stove, powering down. You can leave reality behind and reappear for the aftermath.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
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