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Why was it so much easier to deal with mortal enemies than one’s own family?
“Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.”
― Rogue Protocol
― Rogue Protocol
“They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.”
― Rogue Protocol
― Rogue Protocol
“The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it.
— a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel”
― Terminal Uprising
— a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel”
― Terminal Uprising
“I live on a ship full of outcasts, populated by society's unacceptable. And yet, here I stand, happy. And I love them all.
It is time, Primrose thought, to tender myself the same level of courtesy. Or perhaps it is time that I simply accepted that I too am one of the strange and abandoned. Appearances be damned.”
― Competence
It is time, Primrose thought, to tender myself the same level of courtesy. Or perhaps it is time that I simply accepted that I too am one of the strange and abandoned. Appearances be damned.”
― Competence
“... a centred confidence that where his own conscience had led him, his lover would surely follow. Eventually.
And Harry, who had had no prior reason to believe the truth of that assumption, suddenly saw it made plain in Draco's face as he in turn looked at his lover: his relief, his fierce exultation at the vindication, and his sheer blazing pride in Neville's magnanimity: the pride of someone terrified of heights who sees someone he cares about to parachute from fifteen thousand feet.
Harry gulped.
Oh god. Please don't let me die before someone chooses to look at me like that.
(Kindle Locations 1514-1519)”
― The Perilous Point
And Harry, who had had no prior reason to believe the truth of that assumption, suddenly saw it made plain in Draco's face as he in turn looked at his lover: his relief, his fierce exultation at the vindication, and his sheer blazing pride in Neville's magnanimity: the pride of someone terrified of heights who sees someone he cares about to parachute from fifteen thousand feet.
Harry gulped.
Oh god. Please don't let me die before someone chooses to look at me like that.
(Kindle Locations 1514-1519)”
― The Perilous Point
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Diane’s 2025 Year in Books
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Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Science, Science fiction, fantasy-of-manners, mannerpunk, urban-fantasy, werewolves, wizards, witches, paranormal-romance, shapeshifters, magic, low-fantasy, high-fantasy, fairy-tales, dragons, planetary-romance, space-opera, time-travel, steampunk, alternate-history, aliens, amateur-sleuth, cozy-mystery, golden-age-mystery, historical-mystery, paranormal-mystery, whodunit, science-fiction-romance, time-travel-romance, romantic-suspense, historical-romance, fantasy-romance, and victoriana
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