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Save one, whose patience or whose pride was more than all the rest.
So one place, one untouched place in all the world remained, a rather smallish forest near the sea and near humankind, keeping a time different than elsewhere.

— C. J. Cherryh Arafel's Saga (1983)

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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004)

Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.

Arafel's Saga (1983)

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

Chanur's Legacy (1992)

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

Pretender (2005)

At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.

Downbelow Station (1981)

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