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Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

— Sherwood Smith Crown Duel (1997)

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Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.

Inda (2006)

Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.

A Stranger to Command (2008)

Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.

The Fox (2007)

'What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?'

Remalna's Children (2011)

'Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'

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