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Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“ Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.James Sallis
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Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?"" The company of a friend, I think."" Always a cheap treat.James Sallis
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What’d you need?"" Desuetude."" Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse."" Thanks, man."" That it?"" Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.James Sallis
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That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.James S.A. Corey
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It was some of Solomon’s favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn’t expected to dance to it.James S.A. Corey
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This is what people are talking about when they use words like grace. That moment, that morning, came vividly back to him whenever he thought of it. But soon suspicion set in. He understood well enough that life by very definition is upset, movement, agitation.James Sallis
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The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.James S.A. Corey
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Listening out for the sound of [his parent's] return kept him suspended in a semi-permanent state of agitation just like an apparently sleeping cat whose ear radar never rests.Jon Edgell
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On Mars, the joke went, a man’s hole was his castle where values of castle approached dorm room.James S.A. Corey
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Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn’t done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can’t be good.James S.A. Corey
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He almost blacks out again, but he’s not sure if it’s the stroke or the thrust gravity. He’s pretty sure driving blood pressure higher while having a stroke is considered poor form.James S.A. Corey