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I threw my coat onto my couch and tried not to overthink anything. I said hi to my two Siamese fighting fish, Ali and Bruce, and asked Spike how his day was. Spike was a cactus I’d had for years, but I still spoke to him. He sat on the
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“What we do not pay for in some way, unfortunately we tend not to regard in its true worth.” She smiled to soften the words a little. Jemima frowned. “Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?” she asked. “And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying?”
― Callander Square
― Callander Square
“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“Thought again of the City as an algorithm: considered, for the first time clearly, that no algorithm was innocent of its designers. It couldn’t be. There was an originating purpose for an algorithm, however distant in its past—a reason some human person made it, even if it had evolved and folded in on itself and transformed.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
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