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“Marry me,' he says. 'Become the Queen of Elfhame.'
I feel a cold shock come over me, as though someone has told a particularly cruel joke, with me its target. As though someone looked in to my heart and saw the most ridiculous, most childish desire there and used it against me. 'But you can't.'
'I can,' he says. 'Kings and queens don't often marry for something other than a political alliance, true, but consider this a version of that. And were you queen, you wouldn't need my obedience. You could issue all your own orders. And I would be free.”
― The Wicked King
I feel a cold shock come over me, as though someone has told a particularly cruel joke, with me its target. As though someone looked in to my heart and saw the most ridiculous, most childish desire there and used it against me. 'But you can't.'
'I can,' he says. 'Kings and queens don't often marry for something other than a political alliance, true, but consider this a version of that. And were you queen, you wouldn't need my obedience. You could issue all your own orders. And I would be free.”
― The Wicked King
“Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.”
― The Long Earth
― The Long Earth
“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
― 2010: Odyssey Two
― 2010: Odyssey Two
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