“A court dedicated to pure justice, one that can overrule the law! They didn’t even have one of those back on old Earth!”

— Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 10, “I Am Wilvia/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 69)

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