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In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington, #7)

by David Weber

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Sep 16, 2016 05:20PM

“Someday we might look back with a curious nostalgia at the days when profligate homeowners wastefully sprayed their lawns with liquid gold to make the grass grow, just so they could then burn black gold to cut it down on the weekends.”
― Alok Jha, 50 Ways the World Is Going to End: The Biggest Threats to the Planet

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“When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.”
― Jean Baudrillard

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“His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines. ”
― Colleen Houck

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“Even if alien visitors did decide to drop by this utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon—aka Yawnsville, USA—as their point of first contact. Not unless their plan was to destroy our civilization by wiping out our least interesting locales first.”
― Ernest Cline, Armada

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