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Quotes from The Best of All Possible Worlds — Karen Lord

born 1968

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The ability to know another’s mind does not preclude the likelihood of misunderstanding it.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

What you describe as the product of a mental imbalance, I would classify as swift, intuitive thinking to arrive at creative solutions.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

Blood is blood, you know? There’s too much shared history and too many cross-connecting bonds to ever totally extract yourself from that half-smothering, half-supporting, muddled net called family.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

I don’t want easy. I want true.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

And stop thinking you’re the superior ones! You’re just another drop in our gene pool! We’re all descended from peoples who thought they were kings and gods and who found themselves to be almost nothing at all in the end. Don’t let that be you.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karen Lord (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.