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Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.Kathryn Davis
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The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.Kathryn Davis
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There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn’t need to devour anything.Kathryn Davis
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...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.Kathryn Davis
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A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.Kathryn Davis
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Apes or human — we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.Kathryn Davis
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The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.Kathryn Davis
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It isn’t time that folds, it’s space.Kathryn Davis
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According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon — both sides were totally unprepared, not to mention the fact that they had their parts mixed up. The girls were only interested in romance, and the robots in completing a transaction.Kathryn Davis
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Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that’s what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through — that’s why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn’t have anything to do with praying. Prayers bore them.Kathryn Davis
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Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.Kathryn Davis