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Emma Claire Everett
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“Should I not refer to those people, my enemies, as ‘them’? I confess that after having spent almost my whole life in their company I cannot help but sympathize with them, as I do with many others. My weakness for sympathizing with others has much to do with my status as a bastard, which is not to say that being a bastard naturally predisposes one to sympathy” (36).
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“I lay down and could not sleep, even though I was in what soldiers, with their usual wit, called a thousand star hotel. All I need to do was look up to the galaxy to remind myself of my good luck” (40).
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Emma Claire Everett
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“Having been thus produced outside of marriage, I confess to feeling very uncomfortable at the thought of being married myself” (36).
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“Many bastards behave like bastards, and I credit my gentle mother with teaching me the idea that blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. After all, if she had not blurred the lines between maid and priest, or allowed them to be blurred, I would not exist” (36).
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Emma Claire Everett
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“So it was always at the basilica that I asked Man to meet me for our clandestine business, both of us savoring the farce of being counted among the faithful. We genuflected, but in actuality we were atheists who had chosen communism over God.” 26
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Emma Claire Everett
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“What was it like to live in a time when one’s fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one’s country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?” (17).
— Sep 15, 2026 05:23AM
Emma Claire Everett
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“And what would we have done with that money? Buy the ammunition, gas, and spare parts for the weapons, planes, and tanks the same Americans had bestowed on us for free. Having given us the needles, they now perversely no longer supplied the dope. (Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)” (4)
— Sep 14, 2026 04:18AM
Emma Claire Everett
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“If those thousands still lived, they would not have believed how they had died, just as we could not believe that the Americans—our friends, our benefactors, our protectors—had spurned our request to send more money” (4).
— Sep 14, 2026 04:17AM
Emma Claire Everett
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“She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers” (3).
— Sep 14, 2026 04:15AM