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“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”
― A Swiftly Tilting Planet
― A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Raya knew this type of girl â€� they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical â€� the foster kid â€� to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“I felt a kind of impersonal kinship with them and a joy in that kinship. Beauty of earth and sea and air meant more to me. I was in harmony with it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. ‘Praise ye the Lord, all ye fishes of the sea â€� all ye birds of the air â€� all ye children of men â€� Praise ye the Lord!â€� Yes, I felt closer to my fellow men too, even in my solitude.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea

“Amar significa nunca tener que decir lo siento”
― Love Story
― Love Story

“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
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