Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Lois McMaster BujoldHonesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster BujoldMiles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.
Lois McMaster BujoldForward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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