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more terrible thing still to love someone and not know if you’d ever been loved in return. There is something shameful in that prospect, the kind of shame that can reduce a person to someone she no longer recognizes.
“Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.”
― Debt of Honor
― Debt of Honor
“Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.”
― The Long Way Home
― The Long Way Home
“Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.”
― The Hunt for Red October
― The Hunt for Red October
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