Olivia Waite Quotes

“And that is why you didn't put painkillers in my tea. Because I admired your knitting." "Don't you read history? People have killed for much less. And not-killing is even easier. People do it all the time.”

Love Fate Parents And Children Hate Relationships

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

“Having nephews really wasn’t always bad. Ruthie might have been an agent of chaos, and his brilliance never seemed to bring him anything but trouble, but he was also a kind heart. Sometimes that was more important than all the rest.”

Family Kindness

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

“Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it.”

Love Mourning Lost Love Wlw

Book:The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“You could take a robin, put it in a cage, and carry it with you around the world- but if you never opened the cage door, how much of a difference would you have made to the robin's life? All it would know was the view through the bars.”

Freedom Feminism Womens Rights

Book:The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“You could never mistake the sound of true grief, once you had felt it yourself. It made the mettle of the soul ring in sympathy, like one bell softly chiming whenever its neighbor was struck.”

Grief Feminism Women Empowerment

Book:The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Our botanist plucked the flowers and named them after himself. And my new husband swept aside all the offerings to the dead and set up his telescope on the altar, because the offering was clear of trees and he wanted the best vantage into the skies. When one of the islanders protested, and tried to push George away, Captain Lateshaw had the man flogged. Because order had to be maintained”

Science Racism Racism And Culture

Book:The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“...I didn't want to lose you and now you're saved and everything is fiiiiiiiiiiine!" Everything was evidently not fine.”

Love Hate Relationships Fate Racism Parents And Children

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

“I remember now I felt them die....things got rather scrambly and now they're just there, a bland spot interrupting all my comfortable scans. The ship made a noise of profound unhappiness. It itches.”

Love Hate Relationships Fate Racism Parents And Children

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

“Gloria's office...was sleek and cold an gray. Just like Gloria's suit -- or, I thought privately, like Gloria's heart. Meticulous as a shark in pursuit of what she wanted. heedless of the damage done to anyone else.”

Hate Relationships Fate Racism Love Quotes And Sayings Parents And Children

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

“Gloria's office...was sleek and cold and gray. Just like Gloria's suit -- or, I thought privately, like Gloria's heart. Meticulous as a shark in pursuit of what she wanted, heedless of the damage done to anyone else.”

Love Hate Relationships Fate Racism Parents And Children

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

“But tonight I learned that there were other women before me. So very, very many of them. They were here all along: spotting comets, naming stars, pointing telescopes at the sky alongside their fathers and brothers and sons. And still the men they worked with scorned them. Scoffed at them. Gave the credit and glory to the men who stole their work- or borrowed it or expanded it. Rarely cited it directly. And then those men did their best to forget where the work came from. Women's ideas are treated as though they sprung from nowhere, to be claimed by the first man who came along.”

Women Women In Science

Book:The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

Source: The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“The Fairweather exists to preserve a future for humanity -- including our knowledge, inventions, and skills. And knowing how to circumvent the authorities is often a historically necessary skill.”

Love Hate Fate

Book:Murder by Memory

Source: Murder by Memory

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