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1 " Sometmes when you pull knives on people, they get this impression that you're going to hurt them, and then they're completely terrified. Crazy, I know!" " Okay," said Nick. He turned to Jamie & popped his left wrist sheath again. " Look." Jamie backed up. " Which part of 'completely terrified' did you translate as 'show us your knives, Nick'? Don't show me your knives, Nick. I have no interest in your knives." Nick rolled his eyes. " This is a quillon dagger. That's a knife with a sword handle. I like it because it has a good grip for stabbing." " Why do you say these things?" Jamie inquired piteously. " Is it to make me sad?" " I didn't have you cornered," Nick went on. " You could've run. And this dagger doesn't have an even weight distribution; it's absolute rubbish for throwing. If I had any intention of hurting you, I'd have used a knife I could throw." Jamie blinked. " I will remember those words always. I may try to forget them, but I sense that I won't be able to. "
2 " One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war "
3 " I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth. "
― Clarice Lispector , Near to the Wild Heart
