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Crying was a pointless little-girl thing to do and it hadn’t fixed one goddamn thing since it had been invented by the very first pointless little girl. Problems only got solved when you did something about them.
“I do know that, actually, because I was there and I talked to them. I also know that the next three ships are already booked, so it’s this or nothing. Well,” she amended ruthlessly, “it’s this or go on the state or start whoring. I guess we do have options.”
God gives even the biggest fool one real talent.”
They said catastrophe stripped away the masks. A person could be almost anything with enough time to prepare for the part, but it took a disaster to show the world who you really were. Maybe even to find out for yourself.
A man can see a thousand miraculous things in his life and still be washed away by one bad turn on a stretch of bad road.”
“But then, life is in the journey. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.”
Each man builds his own House and it will always be haunted.”
“I want to come with you!” He kept walking and didn’t look at her. “When I judge you ready.” “I’m ready!” “But you are not the judge.”
“Truth does not care if it comforts you,
even the unkindest truth strengthens a man more than the prettiest lie.”
“To let a lie stand is to speak it with your own throat.”
Truth is not always what someone says, Soft-Skin. Truth is what something is, what it means.”
“I don’t believe in your stupid god.” He snorted. “It amazes me each time you say that, as if you truly believe it is necessary that you do.”
“It’s funny, isn’t it?” he murmured. “The things you find to love in this life…so you don’t hate yourself so much for living it.”
Women are like handfuls of sand. They all rub up under your scales now and then, but the finest ones do put a polish on a man.
“Because all the things God isn’t for me,” she said, “you are. Because of you, I see Him every day. So start talking, lizardman, but I warn you, you’ve got a hard talk ahead of you if you’re going to convince me there’s no God after He gave you to me.”
“God does not always give us what we ask for,” Nraqi said, wrapping her in folds of her robe to shelter her from the wind. “But after all my years, I have come to believe He gives us what He can. So pray, even if all He can do is sit beside you. I know that doesn’t seem like much, but sometimes, I tell you, it is everything.”
