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It's impossible to protect anyone completely without enslaving them. I think that's something you've never understood because you've always demanded too much of yourself. You blame yourself for your sister's death—
I didn't watch her carefully enough.
What could you have done? Remember her life, not her death. She was brave and happy and arrogant, the way a child should be. You could only protect her more by chaining her to you with fear. She couldn't live that way, not and remain the person you loved.

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The intensity of Melissa's loyalty troubled Snake. She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self-interest. Perhaps Melissa could not yet think of herself as someone with a right to her own dreams; perhaps so many of her dreams had been taken from her that she no longer dared to have them.

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If you want to. That's the important thing. For you to do what you want to do. Not what you think anyone else wants or expects you to do.

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He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune.

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It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect.

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All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda N. McIntyre

Born: August 28, 1948

Died: April 1, 2019 (aged 70)

Bio: Vonda Neel McIntyre was a Pacific Northwest science fiction author.

Known for:

Dreamsnake (1978)
The Moon and the Sun (1997)
Starfarers (1989)
The Entropy Effect (1981)
The Exile Waiting (1975)

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