Bean Quotes
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w...
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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the ...
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O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear ...
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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...
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The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life....
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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...
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Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with ...
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Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been ...
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I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to m...
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Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation.""What was it, target practice? Chinese ...
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How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""Tha...
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You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

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