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“The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death.”
― The Way Through Doors
― The Way Through Doors
“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”
― The Curfew
― The Curfew
“He silently cursed his stupidity. They claimed a man learned from experience. He doubted this. He made the same error over and over again and knew it was an error when making it.”
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“I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.”
― The Curfew
― The Curfew
“…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. "
"What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?”
― The Curfew
"What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?”
― The Curfew
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