"For once, Evie didnâ€™t know what to say. She hadnâ€™t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke."

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Libba Bray

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“We commute to computers; Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors. We survivalists, turned to consumers...”
“Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.”
“Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.”
“You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.”
“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortalâ€”there's the trick!”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.28, Penguin
“Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.”
“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.”

Source : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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