"She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t……" — Paolo Bacigalupi
"She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived."
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26 Quotes by Paolo Bacigalupi
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division,…
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We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world…
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Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get…
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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their…
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