"Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away."

-- Nancy Pearl

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“The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.”
“Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?”
“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”

Source : Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.”
“When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.”
“We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.”
“Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”
“John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”

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