Margaret Ball

Quotes

• “You’d know that if you’d studied something useful like engineering instead of, what is it this year, Down With Dead White Males, or whatever they call your artsy-fartsy curriculum.”
• “At least some of the techniques she’d learned at Valley View still worked. If you talked nonsense long enough and looked like being a major interruption to the day’s work, they would send you on to somebody else. And when they ran out of somebody elses to send you to, the last one would sign whatever it was needed signing just to get you to go away.”
• “Well, that was interesting. The question she really wanted to ask was, How come you people take all this so seriously? But that wasn’t in the book.”
• “Savaric never let reality interfere with his assumption that he and his ways were naturally superior to anyone else’s way of doing things and that everybody else in the world was either a dolt or a weakling.”
• ““You tried to warn me about Aigar. All of you did. And I didn’t want to believe you.”“Loyalty is no crime,” Domerc said gently.“Totally idiotic, unreasoning loyalty is. Or ought to be,” Allie said.”
• “For once his years of teaching experience stood him in good stead; he was an old hand at sounding knowledgeable while dodging surprise questions from smart-breeched scholars.”

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