Quotes from Barry B. Longyear

Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

There is no force as powerful as a promise that insists on being kept.

Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit." - Yazi Ro

Who am I to be marryin' people?" Little Will smiled with a hint of mischief, "Waxy, who better than the boss harness man to tie the know?

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My training is in the arts of killing and preparing the kill for consumption. I am told you call this home economics.