“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
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