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21 " Marcus smiled back at her nervously, eyeing not only the rifle but the pair of knives he now saw clipped to her belt. Not one knife - a pair of knives. Who needs two knives? How many things does she have to cut at once? He was in no hurry to find out. "
― Dan Wells , Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)
22 " ... if you have the strength to complain, you have the strength to do something about it. "
23 " Sometimes you have to put the present through hell to get the future you want. "
24 " What's changed is that your high-minded morality is suddenly faced with consequences. Every choice has them.Sometimes with the stakes this high a choice you would never make before, that you would never consider in any other circumstances, becomes the only moral option. The only action you can take and still live with yourself in the morning. "
25 " I've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.""I'm very bad at communi-"I know", said Calix firmly. "I am very quickly becoming an expert in how bad at communicating you are. We've established that, and we're moving past it. "
26 " The documents inbox138 described a world in which money was everything- not just the means of sustaining life but the purpose of living it. ... If that was how the old world worked--if that was all they really cared about--maybe it was better that it had fallen apart. Maybe it was inevitable "
27 " If you could do me a favor and not tell anyone I, uh, threw myself at you, that would be very kind as well. "
28 " If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.” They "
29 " You crossed the entire continent together, and yet neither of you made a move?"She huffed another short hollow laugh."No wonder you don't have any children. "