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The Odyssey
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Menelaus, and the dominant figure is beautiful, magical Helen, who has frightening drugs that can take away all pain and grief.
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“Time was a curious equaliser.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“That is not the way of it. Your future is not set in stone, my dearest star. A coin turns on itself a number of times before it lands.”
― The Rose & the Dagger
― The Rose & the Dagger
“Humans’ preoccupation with ‘being happy’ was something he had never been able to figure out. No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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