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under the old laws, an act of violence was a crime against only the victim. If the offender made proper restitution to the victim’s kin, he was absolved of further liabilities. That was no longer enough; Llewelyn would have the man held
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“the function of the imagination for Chesterton is not to make the notional and theoretical concrete and real as for Newman, but to make settled things strange;”
― G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
― G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
“We did it," he muttered to Ekaterin, now perching on the chair arm. "Why didn't anybody stop us? Why aren't there more regulations about this sort of thing? What fool in their right mind would put me in charge of a baby? Two babies?”
― Diplomatic Immunity
― Diplomatic Immunity
“I always thought my parents could fix anything. Now it's my turn. Dear God, how did this happen?”
― Diplomatic Immunity
― Diplomatic Immunity
“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
― Barrayar
― Barrayar
“If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other . . . ”
― CryoBurn
― CryoBurn
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