Joan Slonczewski - A Door into Ocean (1986)

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Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

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I can't change what I am ovenight.
Nor can I. And yet, one can't stop changing, either.

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Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.

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She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world's absurdity might be too much to bear.

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People fear stone, Usha said, because it contains never-life.
Non-life? You mean, death?
Nonsense, she repeated vehemently. What's to fear about death? Death is natural. Stone is never-life.
Spinel took another tack. If they fear it, then how come enough Sharers want it so the traders stock shelves full?
How should I know? Why do Valans drink the toxic waste product of sugar-eating yeast?

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If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

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Magic is nonsense.
Magic is anything you don't understand.

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A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

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There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

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You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

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She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was.

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