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"Adaptation is the key to survival."
"A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct."
"The best thing-in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing-about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it."
"When in doubt, choose to live."
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"As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation."
"Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting."
"Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it."
"Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you."
"I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world."
"The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places."
"This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be."
"I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone."
"The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return."
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