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M. K. Hobson est écrivaine américaine.

✵ 21. janvier 1969
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“But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.”

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Prologue (p. 14)
The Hidden Goddess (2011)

““Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.”
“I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,” Emily hissed. “Ever hear of it?”
“They’re out of fashion in New York,” Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 5, “The Aberrancy” (p. 74)

“You know, there’s one thing about you that always astonishes me. The longer you talk, the wronger you get.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 23, “The Skycladdische and the Sangrimancer” (p. 331)

“Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 19, “The Ruined Woman” (p. 310)

“I’d ask you to forego the jingoistic claptrap, but it’s terrifyingly obvious you truly believe it.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 284)

“The shortness of the woman’s replies indicated that Emily was asking questions Miss Jesczenka didn’t particularly want to answer, but those were usually the questions that most needed to be asked.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 6, “Treachery” (p. 89)

“Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.”

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Prologue (p. 15)
The Hidden Goddess (2011)

“It was disappointing, as if a wish she didn’t know she’d made hadn’t come true.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 4, “Dmitri” (p. 46)

““What kind of idiot do you think I am?”
”I have no idea what kind of idiot you are,” Miss Jesczenka said. “That’s why I’m asking.””

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 8, “Chaos and Disorder” (p. 133)

“Could one die from boredom, she wondered? From complete, oppressive, crushing, unmitigated boredom, the likes of which made all other boredom seem like ecstasy’s sweet thrilling embrace? And in such a case, if one happened to have a life insurance policy, would it pay?”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 1, “The Message in the Steam” (p. 17)

“Emily already knew there was going to be hell to pay, and she supposed there was no use allowing it to accrue interest.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 5, “Dreadnought” (p. 57)

“I don’t think that’s the answer he was looking for. It’s not the answer I was looking for. But maybe it’s the right one.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 19, “The Ruined Woman” (p. 291)

“The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 7, “San Francisco” (p. 95)

““Was your mother furious?”
“She’ll get over it,” Stanton said. “Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there’s still hope.””

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 5, “Dreadnought” (p. 65)

“I wasn’t sure if we were still engaged.”
“After everything we’ve been through? After true love conquered all?” Emily shook her head. “Being dead had done nothing to alleviate your obtuseness, Mr. Stanton.”
“Being dead allowed me to learn the heart’s deepest secret,” he said. “That sometimes love—even true love—isn’t enough.”

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”But it’s a start,” Emily said.
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 25, “Lyakhov’s Anodyne” (p. 353)

“Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 285)

“Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 23, “The Skycladdische and the Sangrimancer” (p. 325)

“Don’t lie,” he said. “That’s my job.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 19, “The Ruined Woman” (p. 310)

“Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 3, “The Rule of Three” (p. 43)

““It is a great weakness of credomancers, Miss Edwards. They often believe their own press.”
”You’re a credomancer, too,” Emily said.
“I’m also a woman. Failure, struggle, and doubt are my constant companions. They are not always pleasant, but they inoculate me against overconfidence. As such, I would not trade them for all the arrogant bravado in the world.””

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 18, “The Talleyrand Maneuver” (pp. 282-283)

“Credomancy may seek to exploit the human desire for a tidy narrative where an unblemished romantic hero vanquishes all obstacles, but such ideals have very little to do with reality. Reality requires pragmatism and compromise. Men fail. Women fail. There are no heroes, only human beings who somehow find the strength to behave heroically, no matter how many times they have been unable to do so in the past. If you understand that, Miss Edwards—if you truly and deeply understand that, then you will understand the most powerful thing anyone with a heart can understand.”

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“And what’s that?” Emily said softly.
“That love is not enough. But it’s a start.”
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 19, “The Ruined Woman” (p. 291)

“Ever mind the Rule of Three…Three times what thou givest returns to thee.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 3, “The Rule of Three” (p. 42)

“It was her own evil assumptions that had done her in. She hadn’t even considered the third possible explanation for his strange behavior—that he was a perfectly nice man, without an ounce of guile, just trying to be helpful. People helped people in California. Why hadn’t she thought of that? She’d only been in New York a few weeks, and already she was turning hard and suspicious.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 2, “An Unexpected Gift” (p. 33)

““Your frontier ethics are so rawboned, Miss Edwards, as rough-hewn and clumsy as the log cabin in which you must have been raised.” Mrs. Stanton’s face was like marble as she spoke; only her lips moved with ugly precision. “Decency is striving for perfection in a world in which every other hoglike creature satisfies himself with sloppiness and indulgence. Decency is not in failing to murder someone. It’s in murdering the right person, and sparing your family the indignity of getting caught.””

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 13, “Red Hand, Gold-Colored Eye” (pp. 221-222)

“Emily looked at him for a long time. There were so many things she wanted to know—but she wanted not to know them even more. She didn’t want any more answers. He had been the one thing she could trust, the one person she could rely on. She wanted to beg him to be that way again. But it wasn’t him who had changed. It was her. It was her own credulity she really wanted back. And credulity, like virtue, could be lost only once.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 17, “The Cockatrice” (p. 237)

“The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.”

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Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 6, “Treachery” (p. 84)

““They say that they’re a punishment on godly people for allowing sin to walk the earth unanswered—”
“Who is this ‘they’ you’re always referring to?” Stanton glared at Rose, his eyes gleaming with unhidden malice. “Your mongoloid Aunt Kindy? Your drunken Uncle Sal? Or are you talking about the slack-jawed hacks who bang out those dime novels for a bottle of whiskey and the price of a flophouse?”
Rose stared at him, her mouth open in astonishment. But Stanton pressed on, his voice flat and awful.
“Or maybe you’re just using the word ‘they’ as so many pea-brained idiots use it, as a cowardly rhetorical device, an excuse to say the things you really believe without giving anyone the chance to judge you for the narrow-minded, stupid creature you are.””

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 15, “Ososolyeh” (pp. 211-212)

“Dignity is like morality,” Mirabilis barked. “Too much is as bad as too little.”

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Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 274)

“Before the sun went down again, she realized, she would be in New York. The thought sent a nervous thrill through her entire body. Her throat was tight, her heart suddenly racing.”

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M. K. Hobson livre The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 15, “Ososolyeh” (pp. 220-221)

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