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1 " She rolled the mysterious plunkin across in front of the hearth and stared at it. It still looked disconcertingly like a severed head. "What do we do with this?"Dag sat cross-legged and smiled--not much of a smile, but a start. "Lots of choices. They all come down to plunkin. You can eat it raw in slices, peel it and cut it up and cook it alone or in a stew, boil it whole, wrap it in leaves and cook it in campfire coals, stick a sword through it and turn it on a spit, or, very popular, feed it to the pigs and eat the pigs. It's very sustaining. Some say you could live forever on plunkin and rainwater. Others say it would just seem like forever. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Legacy (The Sharing Knife, #2)
2 " Because that’s what family was all about, in her experience. They pulled together in a crisis; it was just too bad about the rest of the time. "
3 " Yet if all things end, even despair must, too. Not in my lifetime. But sometime. "
