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“You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.”
― A Civil Campaign
The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.”
― A Civil Campaign
“We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”
― Diplomatic Immunity
― Diplomatic Immunity
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― A Civil Campaign
― A Civil Campaign
“When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
― Memory
― Memory
Shae’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Shae’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
173 books
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282 friends
901 books
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189 friends
5,228 books
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38 friends
1,364 books
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687 books
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373 friends
1,244 books
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82 friends
549 books
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24 friends
670 books
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42 friends
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