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“I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.”

Diversity Alliances Xenophobia

Book:The Volunteer

Source: The Volunteer

“Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.”

Book:The Deserter

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“The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings.”

Sibling Rivalry Complicated Relationship Sibling Bond

Book:The Volunteer

Source: The Volunteer

“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species.”

Interpretation Translations Interpreting Lost In Translation

Book:The Inferior

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“She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.”

Pregnancy Pregnant Women Rites

Book:The Inferior

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“His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject.”

Courtship Stuttering Stutter

Book:The Inferior

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“At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves.”

Courage Swooning Over Sentences

Book:The Volunteer

Source: The Volunteer

“They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.”

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Book:The Call

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“There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings.”

Literacy Graffiti Philology

Book:The Deserter

Source: The Deserter

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