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  1. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
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  2. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    Miss Sevier in high school told us the police think we have knives or guns in our pockets and that they have killed people who were just trying to get out their IDs. I think that is wrong, but I read where the court decided it was all right if the police were really scared. Yet if anybody else is really scared of the police it's not all right for the scared person to kill a policeman.
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  3. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder.
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  4. Elizabeth Moon _ Oath of Fealty

    To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands."
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  5. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
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  6. Elizabeth Moon _ Trading in Danger

    If a military life was long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror-as one of her instructors had said-then civilian life seemed to be long periods of boredom interrupted by moments of dismal reflection.
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  7. Elizabeth Moon _ The Deed of Paksenarrion

    We do not argue that war is better than peace; we are not so stupid as that. But it is not peace when cruelty reigns, when stronger men steal from farmers and craftworkers, when the child can be enslaved or the old thrown out to starve, and no one lifts a hand. That is not peace: that is conquest, and evil.
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  8. Elizabeth Moon _ Marque and Reprisal

    This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
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  9. Elizabeth Moon _ Sheepfarmer's Daughter

    It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.
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  10. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    I try so hard, and it is still not working. I wear the same clothes as the others. I say the same words at the same times: good morning, hi, how are you, I'm fine, good night, please, thank you, you're welcome, no thank you, not right now. I obey the traffic laws; I obey the rules. I have ordinary furniture in my apartment, and I play my unusual music very softly or use headphones. But it is not enough. Even as hard as I try, the real people still want me to change, to be like them."
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  11. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance.Maybe my questions matter.
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  12. Elizabeth Moon _ The Speed of Dark

    Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
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