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because apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels.
“Stealing for a living is like falling off a roof. For a while, you sail along, exhilarated by the slipstream, free as a bird and twice as fast through the air, and then you hit something and it’s suddenly no good at all.”
― Under My Skin
― Under My Skin
“One can’t found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.”
― Shadow & Claw
― Shadow & Claw
“I’ve been calling it him, but so what? Go back and change the pronouns for yourself, if they offend you.”
― The Long Game
― The Long Game
“Able to pass in any situation as may be required,” she says. “I get it all. Brazilian, Filipina, Mediterranean, Eurasian. Or just a really tan White girl with exotic-looking eyes. Everywhere I go, people think I’m one of them. They want to claim me for their tribe.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“Saloninus’ Third Law: every human being is capable of an infinite quantity of work, so long as it’s not the work he’s supposed to be doing.”
― Under My Skin
― Under My Skin
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