You have more years ahead of you now than Pejar, half your age, whom we buried outside these walls these two days past. Stand before his grave and us… - Lois McMaster Bujold
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You have more years ahead of you now than Pejar, half your age, whom we buried outside these walls these two days past. Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 2 November 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works, most noted for the works in her Vorkosigan Saga.
No fear trembled his voice. Well, she reflected, perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life.
"Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you."… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
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