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The shortness of the woman's replies indicated that Emily was asking questions Miss Jesczenka didn't particularly want to answer, but those were usually the questions that most needed to be asked.

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It was disappointing, as if a wish she didn't know she'd made hadn't come true.

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I'll do everything I can to help, I promise.
You always have, Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.

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Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.

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I don't think that's the answer he was looking for. It's not the answer I was looking for. But maybe it's the right one.

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Emily looked at him for a long time. There were so many things she wanted to know—but she wanted not to know them even more. She didn't want any more answers. He had been the one thing she could trust, the one person she could rely on. She wanted to beg him to be that way again. But it wasn't him who had changed. It was her. It was her own credulity she really wanted back. And credulity, like virtue, could be lost only once.

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Sadly, there is a fine line between patriotism and paranoia.

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The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone's shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.

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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.

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He's lying. I have no doubt he's excellent at it.

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It is a great weakness of credomancers, Miss Edwards. They often believe their own press.
You're a credomancer, too, Emily said.
I'm also a woman. Failure, struggle, and doubt are my constant companions. They are not always pleasant, but they inoculate me against overconfidence. As such, I would not trade them for all the arrogant bravado in the world.

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Emily already knew there was going to be hell to pay, and she supposed there was no use allowing it to accrue interest.

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The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily's spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

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Having engaged in vigorous and passionate debate while on their honeymoon trip from New York, they had arrived at the startling—and rather liberating—conclusion that the marriage itself was not at all necessary. Stanton no longer had a name to give, and taking Emily's would have involved all the tedium of authority and nonsense they'd hoped to avoid. So, in the end, he had returned to her the simple gold band she had worn for so long, sliding it onto the ring finger of her new right hand. And she had given him a soft slow kiss. They were the only vows required.

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Was your mother furious?
She'll get over it, Stanton said. Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there's still hope.

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I'm sorry Mr. Stanton, really I am. I didn't mean to miss it. Things...happened.
Oh, well. Things happened. How nice to have that cleared up.

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But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.

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In New Bethel, we take the word serious. We whip whores, we hang thieves, and we burn sorcerers.

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Dignity is like morality, Mirabilis barked. Too much is as bad as too little.

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It was her own evil assumptions that had done her in. She hadn't even considered the third possible explanation for his strange behavior—that he was a perfectly nice man, without an ounce of guile, just trying to be helpful. People helped people in California. Why hadn't she thought of that? She'd only been in New York a few weeks, and already she was turning hard and suspicious.

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I'd ask you to forego the jingoistic claptrap, but it's terrifyingly obvious you truly believe it.

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Spread out before the pyramid, as far as the eye could see, stretched a frozen ocean of blackness—stinking oily blackness that bubbled and churned. Voider than void, colder than cold, deader than dead.
It is your world.
It is the world we will make for you.

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Ever mind the Rule of Three...Three times what thou givest returns to thee.

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Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.

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She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she'd ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.

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In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.

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Your frontier ethics are so rawboned, Miss Edwards, as rough-hewn and clumsy as the log cabin in which you must have been raised. Mrs. Stanton's face was like marble as she spoke; only her lips moved with ugly precision. Decency is striving for perfection in a world in which every other hoglike creature satisfies himself with sloppiness and indulgence. Decency is not in failing to murder someone. It's in murdering the right person, and sparing your family the indignity of getting caught.

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Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.

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She was painfully aware that doing one's best was never assurance that it wasn't the wrong choice anyway.

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You know, there's one thing about you that always astonishes me. The longer you talk, the wronger you get.

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