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“She glanced at him. “What gods do you respect?”
“None.”
“And why not?”
“I help myself,” he said.”
Источник: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 20)
“She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.”
Part IV “The Training Floor” chapter 9 (p. 242)
Dawn (1987)
“My ignorance wasn’t just annoying. It was dangerous.”
Источник: Fledgling (2005), Chapter 13 (p. 126)
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
“I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.”
Источник: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 316
“You tend to resent people you’re afraid of.”
Источник: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 291
“The only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”
Источник: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 143
“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”
Источник: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”
Источник: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 57
