The Lady Who Sailed the Soul Quotes

“And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.”
― Cordwainer Smith, The Lady Who Sailed the Soul

“The rest of the evening moved with the inevitability of good music.”
― Cordwainer Smith, The Lady Who Sailed the Soul

“Helen did not tell him — then or ever — of the child she had started to hope for, the child they would now never have. Oh, she could have used the child. She could have tied him to her, for he was an honorable man and would have married her had she told him. But Helen’s love, even then in her youth, was such that she could not use this means. She wanted him to come to her of his own free will, marrying her because he could not live without her. To that marriage their child would have been an additional blessing.”
― Cordwainer Smith, The Lady Who Sailed the Soul