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"Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it."
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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."
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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
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"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."
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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."
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"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet-that's not a problem. The problem is that I just can't live anywhere on the planet."
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"Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it."
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"What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy."
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"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."
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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
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"And somehow, that changed everything about sex. The movements might all be the same, but the desire to communicate affection rather than demonstrate prowess changed what everything meant."
Affection
"Your fancy alien train is broken?''My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running.'You are a sad, bitter little man."
Humor
"Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that periodically changed the rules of physics and had killed a bunch of them, but now they'd decided to start shooting each other too.Yes, very bad."
Survival
"They loved scenes of righteous Godly vengeance on sinful mankind. They loved to show God's chosen people safe from harm, watching with happy faces as they were proved right to the world. But they never showed the aftermath. They never showed weeping humans, crushed and dying in pools of their own fluids. Young men smashed into piles of red flesh. A young woman cut in half because she was passing through a hatchway when catastrophe hit. This was Armageddon. This is what it looked like. Blood and torn flesh and cries for help."
War
"Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing."
Change
"She'd been attacked. Just after she came to the Belt. She was seeing that it didn't happen twice.''Attacked,' Miller said, parsing the man's tone of voice. 'Raped?''I didn't ask."
Justice
"He almost blacks out again, but he's not sure if it's the stroke or the thrust gravity. He's pretty sure driving blood pressure higher while having a stroke is considered poor form."
Health
"You're a tough guy, but I'm a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse."
Strength
"It's herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory."
Humor
"Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were."
Recovery
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