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21 " This is a strange world, and we’re alone in it. "
― Max Gladstone , Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence, #3)
22 " Inside the knife-edged cradle, she began to work. "
23 " Tongues and odors mixed on the air: Iskari and motor oil, sweat and leather, Camlaander and Archipelagese and some Shining Empire dialect like silk-muffled cymbals. "
24 " Why?” “What do you want me to say?” “The truth.” He chuckled, meanly. “Never ask a poet to tell you the truth. We have ten different ways to describe a drink of water, and each is true and all lie. "
25 " There are many worlds, and one. "
26 " xxx you can't escape yourself, and you're the only thing that hurts you in the long run. "
27 " You want to help people, even strangers”—and she tapped her own chest, below the collarbone—“of debatable character. But that way of life means sacrifice. You don’t belong to yourself. You live in, you know, connections. Duty. "