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book!
(which I was still reading at 1 am last night, but that was kind of for different reasons...)
From The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold:
If Ista spoke to very many of her duller company with the cryptic leaps of thought she'd sprung on him, it was little wonder rumors circulated of madness, and yet... her occasional opacity of discourse felt more like cipher than babble to him. Of an elusive internal consistency, if only one held the key to it.
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"Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice-- if not whether, then how, they may endure."
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[at the end of a conversation on why love poems addressed to a lady's nose don't go over so well] "Hah. Anyway, I desire all of her. Nose and lips and feet and all the parts between, and her soul, without which her mere body would be all still and cold and claylike, and start to rot, and be not an object of destire at all."
[...which last I include mainly because (except for the pronouns) it sounds exactly like something I would say... which might be why a lot of people seem to think I'm crazy when I talk to them...]
From The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold:
If Ista spoke to very many of her duller company with the cryptic leaps of thought she'd sprung on him, it was little wonder rumors circulated of madness, and yet... her occasional opacity of discourse felt more like cipher than babble to him. Of an elusive internal consistency, if only one held the key to it.
---
"Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice-- if not whether, then how, they may endure."
--
[at the end of a conversation on why love poems addressed to a lady's nose don't go over so well] "Hah. Anyway, I desire all of her. Nose and lips and feet and all the parts between, and her soul, without which her mere body would be all still and cold and claylike, and start to rot, and be not an object of destire at all."
[...which last I include mainly because (except for the pronouns) it sounds exactly like something I would say... which might be why a lot of people seem to think I'm crazy when I talk to them...]
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