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"They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end."
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"In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass-rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual to find a situation that appears without word, or a place that was not known to be on the road."
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"Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them."
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"I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing."
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"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."
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"Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure."
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"A man cannot deserve adventures, he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs."
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"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
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"Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused."
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"It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before."
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"Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. 'Sorry.' He bared his fangs in an apologetic grin. 'We're glad you aren't what's hunting us, but we're no friends of IPCA. And we're all very, very, thirsty.''What, no flirting?' I asked, trying to buy time. 'Aren't you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there--they'd be so disappointed.' I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. 'Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren't suave."
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
Heart
"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."
Energy
"Koudelka looked back, 'You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!'Cordelia met his eyes steadily, 'Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall."
Trust
"Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved."
Faith
"Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks."
Strategy
"What you are is a question only you can answer."
Question
"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins."
Love
"Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say."
Poetry
"I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control."
Reality
"It's true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.''Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.''That's not insight. That's a personal guarantee."
Miracles
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