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“Yeah. Well, they had a witch there who tried to kill me, then they had a gun, but it was fine. I’m fine, no biggie.” He opened his mouth, but she cut him off. “How about you, how was your day?”
“The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably.
"Manners?"
"Hah! Right, but no"
"Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?"
"No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."
Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?"
"Right. None at all.”
― Lords and Ladies
"Manners?"
"Hah! Right, but no"
"Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?"
"No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."
Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?"
"Right. None at all.”
― Lords and Ladies
“Are you saying I should run after her?”
“Crawl, actually, if I were you,” recommended Aral. “Crawl fast. Slither under her door, go belly-up, let her stomp on you till she gets it out of her system. Then apologize some more. You may yet save the situation.” Aral’s eyes were openly alight with amusement now.
“What do you call that? Total surrender?” said Kou indignantly.
“No. I’d call it winning.” His voice grew a shade cooler. “I’ve seen the war between men and women descend to scorched-earth heroics. Pyres of pride. You don’t want to go down that road. I guarantee it.”
― Barrayar
“Crawl, actually, if I were you,” recommended Aral. “Crawl fast. Slither under her door, go belly-up, let her stomp on you till she gets it out of her system. Then apologize some more. You may yet save the situation.” Aral’s eyes were openly alight with amusement now.
“What do you call that? Total surrender?” said Kou indignantly.
“No. I’d call it winning.” His voice grew a shade cooler. “I’ve seen the war between men and women descend to scorched-earth heroics. Pyres of pride. You don’t want to go down that road. I guarantee it.”
― Barrayar
“The remainder of the opera passed without anyone dying, except where the score required them to do so at some length.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“I believe there's nothing in hallucinations that has anything to do with anything external to the internal psychological state of the person who's got the hallucination.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“The chorus was filing on to be A Busy Marketplace, in which various jugglers, gypsies, sword swallowers and gaily dressed yokels would be entirely unsurprised at an apparently drunken baritone strolling on to sing an enormous amount of plot at a passing tenor.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
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