Balance of Trade Quotes

“Jethri had lately formed the theory that this reluctance to offer information was not what a Terran would call spitefulness, but courtesy. It would be—an insult, if his reading of the tapes was right, to assume that another person was ignorant of any particular something.”
― Sharon Lee, Balance of Trade

“Glancing aside, for Liadens counted a too-long stare at the face as rudeness,”
― Sharon Lee, Balance of Trade