“ I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule. ”
I don't understand why anybody old enough to know the score ever gets married, anyway. Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion
~ Robert Silverberg
Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse. No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!
I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.
[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.