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"WHOA, now I know how to safely remove a human body still touching a live wire, and how to exit an electrified car without getting shocked! Of all the (abundant) knowledge I have that will never be needed, this is the coolest! In the highly unlikely event that I can use this information, the book totally just paid for itself the first time I opened it!" Apr 29, 2014 01:16PM

 
Rules of Prey
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"JFC I can't remember the last time I was so confused by a book, bordering on insulted. I finished but I need a cooling off period before reviewing, like the waiting period to buy a handgun.

On the bright side, my husband listened to me rant about it so much! Bless him."
Mar 10, 2019 12:41AM

 
The Medical Detec...

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"Chapter 11, "Something A Little Unusual," is a crazy story! With bonus nerdy plant details, hooray!" Feb 18, 2019 12:02PM

 
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Did the International Committee of the Red Cross know anything about this? Did the United States? The UN? Yes, yes, and yes. And what did they do about it? Nothing. In the early days of the so-called repatriation, some seventy thousand ...more
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Marie Brennan
“If there is any conclusion to my tale (apart from my death, which I hope is yet a good way off), it is that the heart of it will never truly end. Although my memoirs are of course the story of my life and career, they are also a story of discovery: of curiosity, and investigation, and learning, not only regarding dragons but many other topics. I take comfort in knowing that others will carry this tale forward, continually unfolding new secrets of the world in which we live, and hopefully using that understanding more often for good than for ill.

And so I leave it in your hands, gentle reader. Mind you carry it well.”
Marie Brennan, Within the Sanctuary of Wings

Marie Brennan
“When people speak of the tragedies in my life, they ordinarily mean the deaths. Not only Jacob. But all those around me who have perished. Whether in direct consequence of danger or simple misfortune and the passage of time after our friendships have formed. At times though I think these partings should be accounted as highly, if only in the ledger of my own sorrow. Akinimanbi did not die on a Lebane spear, but I never saw her again after leaving for the Great Cataract. In that sense I lost her as thoroughly as if she had died. So it was with Yeyuama as well. I only saw Faj Rawango once more, years later. And although Galinke corresponded with me, we could not be friends the way we might have been had we dwelt in the same land. So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin. But the only way for me to avoid such losses, would be to stay home. To never journey beyond the range of easy visitation. As my life will attest, that is not a measure I am willing to take. Nor would I forgo the pleasures of my transient friendships if I could. So we made our farewells, packed our things, and boarded a steamship in the harbor of Nsebu. Much browner, thinner and more worn than it had been when we arrived, we made our way back to Scirland.”
Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

Marie Brennan
“It's a wonderful feeling to have one's brain stretched and tested, to know both that one has knowledge, and that one is gaining more.”
Marie Brennan, The Voyage of the Basilisk

Marie Brennan
“If you read the translation, know this: it is a work in progress. All such things are. Other scholars will come along, armed with a better comprehension of the language, other texts, the evidence of archaeology, and they will refine our words, or replace them entirely. We once thought that southern Anthiope was the homeland of my people; now we know it was their second home, as the Sanctuary we live in today is the third. We should not lament this alteration in our knowledge, but celebrate it. Our understanding should always change, always grow—even when that means the necessary destruction of what we knew before.”
Marie Brennan, Turning Darkness Into Light

Marie Brennan
“Another thing to study," Natalie said, amused. "Will you ever be done?"

I smiled into the sun, one hand holding my bonnet against the firm grasp of the wind. "I should hope not. How dreadfully tedious that would be.”
Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

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