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Author: C.J. Cherryh
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C.J. Cherryh _ Chanur's Homecoming
I will give you the hearts of your enemies.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Fortress in the Eye of Time
But it was safety he had found at Uwen's back, at long last, after long running. Uwen offered him protection, a trusted, a kindly presence, strong enough to chase the shadows for him.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Rusalka
Don't mourn might-have-beens . Magic can't work backwards , only forward . I taught you better than that .
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C.J. Cherryh _ Chanur's Legacy
That's the trouble getting involved in politics, nobody wears a name badge!
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C.J. Cherryh _ Fortress in the Eye of Time
Unquestioning believers who thought they questioned everything, unhearing believers who heard nothing that in the least degree questioned the tenets of their sacred quest toward a salvation they predetermined to exist.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Downbelow Station
It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years… but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman's terms. In public relations the mission was a failure; the public, seeking to understand on their own terms, looked for material benefit, treasure, riches, dramatic findings."
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C.J. Cherryh _ The Deep Beyond: Cuckoo's Egg
A lot of new money- paid out in the least educated provinces, to elect fools who'll take orders, who can only see ways to entrench themselves and make sure contracts go to the right companies. Some of these fools are evident, and shrewd country-folk keep voting them in because the powers in their districts might buy one ten times worse and far more subtle.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Downbelow Station
It's the being there; the working of it; the feel of moving through what could surprise you at any moment. It's being a dust speck in that scale and pushing your way through all that Empty on your own terms, that no world can do and nothing spinning around one.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Deliberations
We cannot say what we would have been, but we can still say what we will be. We are making up that sentence as we go, and we shall never be through with that statement.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Regenesis
That's why the forms matter. People have to see things done by the rules. We've got to make people feel safe again and make them believe that compromises are going to be binding.
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C.J. Cherryh _ Regenesis
It represents a real point of consensus we haven't got now, and a lot of people were willing to give up things they wanted so they could get that agreement. It was a point in human history where all of Union agreed to a set of priorities, and now we'll either prove that agreement still binds everybody, or we'll prove somebody with enough guns can run everything at any given moment; and that means no peace, even for them.
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C.J. Cherryh _ The Kif Strike Back
The t'ca {ship} left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake.
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