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It wasn't as if she didn't have plenty to do. Once she'd worked through the top layer of the day's crises, there was always another layer, further down and more detailed. And a third one below that. The best camouflage for work-avoidance was more work? She contemplated the paradox, and decided, in all fairness, that it was just task-avoidance. One particular task, albeit with subheadings.

"Ambushed by your need for categories, again? Most categories are arbitrary, though I admit people do tend to find them reassuring."

"Truth is always. War's first victim," the old saying went.

My selection for #VintageSciFiMonth - randomly picked off my shelves...

DONE! WOOHOO!!

"Now, you might not credit the fact, but then end times are coming. And I for one very much look forward to seeing them come. But for that to happen, Jerusalem and the Holy Land have to belong to the Jews again. That's what it says in the Book."

"Litvak knew that charisma was real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength."

"Landsman feels a numbness enter his limbs, a welcome numbness, a sense of doom that is indistinguishable from peacefulness, like the bite of a predator snake that prefers to swallow its victims alive and tranquil."

"He puts the papiros back into his mouth and looks at himself in the scratched rectangle of polished steel that's mounted above the sink. What he sees there affords him no surprises or unknown depths."

Oh wow! I am really going to finish this! The last book on my Joint Hugo-Nebula TBR! Woohoo!

Honor in safety, survival under threat. Neccesity is the only law.

Well that was a fast read. Hmm. Not exactly what I expected. Lol.

"Out of the forest I could run faster. It was exhilarating, bounding over the rows of low coffee bushes, even though in some corner of my mind I always knew I was lying inert a hundred miles away, inside an armored plastic shell..." -- pretty immersive read...

Skipped Forever Free and went straight to Forever Peace... will prolly be back to read Forever Free one of these days...

Men tend to cry, in Landsman’s experience, when they have been living for a long time with a sense of rightness and safety, and then they realize that all along, just under their boots, lay the abyss.

Oh my heart! Oh these characters! Oh this book...! T_T

"The vital thing is that we act. We do not rely on hope alone, though hope is our bulwark, or light through dark days and darker nights. We also work, and fight, and endure, and it does not matter whether the part we pay is large or small."

“Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willfull blindness.”

"All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all."

I can't believe this is the second last Vorkosigan novel... sigh... plan to finish this one this weekend!

"If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other..."

Wow.

SO CUTE!

Randomly started reading this because my phone was conveniently at hand (and this title was on my Overdrive account) after my 5-month old niece had fallen asleep and I could not move without waking her. Hilarious stuff - I can see why a lot of people love it (even before the flick came out) hahahaha~

Why do I have to work - whyyy~? Lol. I must finish this one soon and put myself out of torture!

Oh, I was not expecting the feels here... Need to take a moment or I will bawl... T_T

Wow. This story... ! *reads on*