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Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity.
The kandra smiled broadly. “Tell me, Miss Colms. What do you know about the nature of Investiture and Identity?”
“He’s always full of himself,” Wayne said, cracking a walnut. “Mostly on account of him eatin’ his own fingernails. I seen him do it.”
“A man doesn’t have to like his duty. He just has to do it.”
“I used to be so nervous at these things,” Wax said softly to Steris. “When I was a kid. That was when I still cared about their opinions, I guess. Before I learned how much power over a situation you gain when you decide that you don’t care what others think of you.”
I’m boring, it’s more that … I’m off. I’ve learned to fake being normal, but lists of prepared comments and jokes can only take me so far. People can sense that I’m not being authentic—that I don’t like the things they like or think the way they do.
“Clothes is fun to play with. Ain’t no reason that can’t be manly.”
he tried to glance at his legs, but he couldn’t move. Couldn’t feel anything, actually, which was quite pleasant.
It seemed to him that the smarter a man was, the more likely he was to pretend he knew more than he did.
“It’s foolish, isn’t it?” “Of course it is,” Marasi said. “Love is always a foolish emotion. That’s what makes it work.”
The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit—but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.”
these aches came merely from sleeping a few hours on this bunk. Rusts. He was getting old.
