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“The only problem anyone should be talking about is the fact that I already told Nura no.” He threw up his hands. “How come no one ever discusses that problem?”
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“And chivalry—” Wilhum let out a short, bitter laugh “—is the worst trick of all, for it fools us with the illusion that war is anything but a chaos of slaughter and suffering.”
― The Pariah
― The Pariah
“Because the biggest difference between Americans and Soviets, she’d realized her first month in this country, didn’t lie in the vowels, the clothes, or how you sweetened your tea. It was in the shoulders. When Soviets were squashed down by life, by luck, by the system, they got resigned—the shoulders drooped. Hit an American with an equal dose of the same oppression and they went stiff—either with anger or with fear, but their shoulders and chin went up, not down.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“Sammerin, you gossip.”
― Daughter of No Worlds
― Daughter of No Worlds
“Americans made a lot of fuss about “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” but most of them definitely preferred a certain kind of immigrant: the kind with no accent.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
“If she’d wanted out of her own country, she could have applied to come here legally—” someone else began. “How?” The word broke from Grace and Reka simultaneously. Reka was the one who continued, “How could she have come here legally? The USSR wouldn’t have let her go. Even if they had, would this country have taken her? I had trouble getting accepted here legally, and I had a sponsor in the Senate and was fleeing Hitler.”
― The Briar Club
― The Briar Club
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