Connie Willis - Thought Quotes

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It doesn't matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.

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My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn't have wasted his time looking for an honest man, Shirl said, he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.

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Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

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It's the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.

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Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

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The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you've all been exposed. Why shouldn't I give up hope?
God has not abandoned us utterly, he said. Agnes is safe in his arms.
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.

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