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Them Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
- If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
- The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,…
- People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such…
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's…
- Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
- Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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