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Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation.""What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?""An offer of transportation to an invited g...more

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How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

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And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That’s because you can inherit money that was earned ...more

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Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

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I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his grand designs without ever knowing that my path a...more

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Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don’t believe in God?Hive Q...more

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When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabricati...more

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But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagin...more

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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried b...more

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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Abs...more

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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

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The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time fo...more

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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it,...more

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Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. ...more