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The Good Trip: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) QUOTES

The Good Trip: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) QUOTES

1 " He watched Rich Harringer open up his little packet (accurately compounded and hygienically wrapped by a couple of fellows putting themselves through grad school in chemistry by the approved American method of free enterprise, illegitimate to be sure but this is not unusual in America where so little is legal that even a baby can be illegitimate) and swallow the small sour snail with formal and deliberate enjoyment. If rape inevitable, relax and enjoy. Once a week. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Good Trip: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story)

2 " In January, before the silence began, she had cried a great deal, all day long some days, and he had become frightened of tears. First tears, then silence. No good. O God get me out of this! Lewis let go, quit fighting the impalpable enemy, and begged for release. He implored the drug in his bloodstream to work, to do something, to let him cry, or see colors, or go off his rocker, anything. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Good Trip: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story)