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21 " You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at. "
― Emma Bull , War for the Oaks
22 " We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have found it, we cannot turn away. "
23 " If the obligations of friendship are constraints, then I am so constrained. "
24 " You're good, did you know that?' Oh, yes. "
25 " The unknowable lives in a pack of cards after it has been fairly shuffled but before it has been dealt, when all the possibilities are open, and when each possibility matters. "
― Emma Bull
26 " You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything." Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy. "
― Emma Bull , Finder (Borderland, #6)
27 " Are you decent?" Tick-Tick called through the door.I said what I was supposed to: "No, but I'm dressed. "
28 " He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language. "
― Emma Bull , Shadow Unit 10
29 " You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it "
30 " I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it. "
31 " She felt … new, just-made. She felt as if everything she had ever done out of weakness or fear had been undone, and all of her past washed clean. "
32 " I see the light at the end of the candle. "
33 " If I had to, I'd fight it like death itself. But with you, I don't have to. "
34 " Nacemos solos en nuestra cabeza; vivimos solos allí; morimos solos. Los secretos, pues, a la tumba. Por un momento sentí deseos desesperados de no estar a solas... "
― Emma Bull , Bone Dance
35 " No vivieron felices para siempre, pues nada vive eternamente; pero vivieron tantos años como es natural, y después pasaron juntos a la tierra donde los árboles florecen y dan fruto a un mismo tiempo, y donde las flores de primavera nunca se marchitan. "
36 " Thataway. "
37 " These are real people, and their suffering is real, and the distance I feel from it, the abstract quality it assumes from my vantage–quite as aristocratic, or perhaps even petit bourgeois as you might say–says a great deal about my vantage but nothing at all about the condition of that class of which your friend Engels writes so convincingly. I began, in other words, to realize that your feelings about the working class were rather like mine toward slavery after reading Mr Darwin's account of his voyage: that I had never actually seen a slave made no difference, nor should it have. "
38 " Falkner sometimes thought her heart was a voodoo doll, full of pins. One each for Ben and the girls. One for each member of the team. She felt the new pin slide in and hoped for the best. "
― Emma Bull , Shadow Unit 1
39 " Have you seen it...Singin' in the rain, have you seen it?"...His answer was all in his face, scornful and baffled at once. Money makes me ask stupid questions. He wanted it, of course, because someone else didn't have it. "Debbie Reynolds dies in the end," I told him. "
40 " Suddenly I could imagine all the things my body might do when I wasn't there to stop it and I felt so vile they might as well have happened. Maybe they had; they just hadn't left marks. I thought about a future full of blank spaces, and I knew I couldn't bear it. If that was the future, I had to escape it. "