“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”
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“I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?”
“I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.”
“I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.”