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"No matter how easy it was for Joan to lose herself in this new life she was constantly aware of the cold. hard borders of it."

"Astronomy was history. Because space was time. And that was the thing she loved most about the universe itself...when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time."

"Looking back on it, Joan could see that the universe had un-folded just as she had needed it to."

"I thought how it was something I had never imagined about myself, that one day I would end up half in love with easeful sleep.
Yes, see that? the unexpected word easeful just slipping itself in like into a warm clean bed next to the word sleep. Easeful. It wasn't a straightforward word, the kind of word you hear much or hear people use often; it wasn't an easeful word."

"The importance of libraries was recognized by the Public Libraries Act 1850 and affirmed by the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964. In all the media mention of cuts to services in libraries 1 heard no reference to these Acts or any other statutory requirement for the provision of libraries. Nor have they been rescinded.
Because libraries have always been a part of any civilization they are not negotiable."

"My grandfather doesn't look much like my father in the picture, but he looks a bit like one of my brothers. I've no idea what he saw in his war. God knows. There's no way of knowing. I'll never know what his voice sounded like. I suppose it must have sounded a bit like my father's. I suppose his voice was in my father's head much like my father's is in mine."

"Fighting Trouble is half my existence."

"Our dreams are collective, rarely dreamt by one person alone. How many of us have dreamt of falling into a bottomless pit? Or of having to take a test we haven't studied for? Have you ever woken from a dream so upset that you find yourself in tears? Is your dream less real than the tears it's caused?"

"How often were the rise and fall of nations determined not by one ideology's superiority over another-whether it be truth over dreams, or capitalism over communism, or democracy over autocracy- but rather because at the point of decision people would do whatever was required of them so they might see a beloved mother, father, brother, sister, or child again-so they might remain together."

"..she and her Marines had the power-at this specific moment-to alter the course of history. Wisecarver had been right about that. Hunt wondered how much of history, which was so often framed as an ideo- logical contest, was decided by nonideological forces of the sort Barnes described."

"...long ago biological and technological evolution merged? Look at the societies in which we live, riven by divisions, embracing technologies we know don't make us better off, that we know hurt us, and that we embrace nonetheless. Who or what is driving that? The technology has already won. It won a long time ago. We humans lost to it, enslaved ourselves to it, this is all ancient history."

"I would answer that mankind has long existed on the brink of one form of annihilation or another. The work of each generation is to keep the species from destroying itself."