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Someone who doesn’t care if they get Tater Tots or turnip slurry is a person who has given up on life.
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While Laurence was talking, a Tater Tot hit him in the head, but he just kept talking as if nothing had happened.
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Every time you solve a problem you’d cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature’s way of striking a balance? We humans don’t have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
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“Behold,” Isobel said, “a single-stage Earth-to-orbit rocket. I drove all the way from Virginia just to help with this. My boyfriend is crazy jealous.
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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.
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“Oh,” Patricia said. “Then I’m a witch. I guess.” “Ah.” The eagle’s hooked beak clicked. “But you will have to prove it. Or both you and Dirrp will be punished.
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And at the last, a war between magic and science that would leave the world in ashes. At the center of all this were a man and a woman, who were still children now.
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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos
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Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
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And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we’ve grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled.
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You might mistake understanding for forgiveness, but if you did, then the unforgiven wrong would catch you off guard, like a cramp, just as you reached for generosity.
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Why was outrage only available when useless
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This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic.
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There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
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Laurence kept sneaking looks under the table at his propped-open copy of Have Space Suit - Will Travel. He was already halfway through the book.
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He couldn't believe that his last words on Earth would be "she's my rocket ship
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
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The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.
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...the scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
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Eventually, Dad and I had to start talking again, because it’s hard to avoid speaking to someone when you’re each supporting one arm of a dying person.
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