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Kwatz!

[A lesser light asked Ummon// Why is this book so good but also so complicated>// Ummon answered// Are all slowtime personas so slow/ or are you more braindamaged than most>]

- “If you die, what happens to me?”

- “I don't know,”I say honestly. “If I die, I don't even know what happens to me.”

“[When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword\\ Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet]”

“What good does observation do when it's the end of the world?”

“In the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith—true faith—was trusting in that love.”

This book is awesome. Maybe even better than the first? I’m really into it now.

“Goddamn fatherfucking asshole politician moral paraplegic dipshit drag-queen bitch!”

“Oh, that would be terrible, wouldn't it? To die before we discover death? To be killed before we are scheduled to be killed? To go out swiftly and without pain, rather than to writhe forever on the Shrike's thorns? Oh, terrible thought, that.”