"Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Saint Quotes #Scream Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.”
“I'll just say this: The last problem Paris Hilton has is being in a John McCain ad.”
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
“Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.”
“In the future, 3hree voices will be followed by 4our and 5ive voices.”
“The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.”
“Surrounding yourself with others...”
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

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