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“It is the cry of the caged, he thought. The memory of freedom. This thought struck him as odd. Was it always the case that freedom required rebellion?”

“What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking—there’s the real danger.”

“Even though he had prepared her for it, he found the trusting response touching. He had to fight against a feeling of pity far stronger than any he had experienced before knowing Hwi. There could be no room for pity out here, though, he told himself. Siona was betraying clear signs that she would more than likely die here. He had to prepare himself for disappointment.”

Library loan ran out because I forgot to claim it for the first week EVIL

“‘Through my father’s line and the others, I have gone right back to the House of Atreus.’
‘Such an illustrious line!’
‘With its fair share of fools.’”

“Idaho’s brows contracted into a puzzled frown. ‘Wolves in the City, m’Lord?’
‘Predators,’ Leto said. ‘Wolves—to me there is no essential difference.’
Moneo gasped.
Leto smiled at him, thinking how beautiful it was to observe a moment of realization—a veil pulled away from the eyes, the mind opened.”

“She left quietly, but Leto could see that Hwi, too, was tortured. There was no mistaking the deep sadness in her for the humanity Leto had sacrificed. She knew what Leto knew: they would have been friends, lovers, companions in an ultimate sharing between the sexes. Her masters had planned for her to know.”

“‘To my certain knowledge, when I am no longer consciously present here among you, when I am here only as a fearsome creature of the desert, many people will look back upon me as a tyrant.
‘Fair enough. I have been tyrannical.
‘A tyrant—not fully human, not insane, merely a tyrant.’“

“Presently, Idaho permitted himself that devil-may-care grin for which he had been so well known. ‘Then I will speak to the first Leto and to Paul, the ones who know me best. Use me well, for I did love you.’
Leto closed his eyes. Such words always distressed him. He knew it was love to which he was most vulnerable.”

“Some say I have no conscience. How false they are, even to themselves. I am the only conscience which has ever existed.”