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1 " You don’t know what you don’t know, "
― Nathan Lowell , To Fire Called (A Seeker’s Tale, #2)
2 " Have you pinned him down?” “You ever try to rivet gelatin? "
3 " Yeah. Well, I sometime embroider the truth a little.” “Embroider? I’ve seen less needlework on twelfth-century tapestries. "
4 " Snakes don’t think like that. To miss their shed skins they’d have to be aware in the same way people were. They’d have to recognize that the old skin just didn’t fit any more and that to miss it would be negating the value of the new one. They’d have to understand that the new skin couldn’t have come into being without the old skin going before and being cast aside. "
5 " Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, "
6 " Self-interest has derailed more societies than any natural disaster. Other than—perhaps—plague. "
7 " The cabin was a box to keep the captain from rattling around in the ship, disturbing the crew like a loose marble in the overhead, rolling back and forth with the minute shifts of gravity and velocity too small for the human cargo to detect but enough to drive them mad unless somebody found the small glass ball. I wondered when I’d grown so dark. "
8 " Why not? You’ve clearly got a thing for her.” “I’ve got a thing for good coffee but I’m not going to date a percolator. "
