“I volunteered for a number of reasons. One of these, quite frankly, was that I thought this was a chance for immortality. Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.”
Statement in We Seven (1962)
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Katniss Everdeen on Mags, p. 232
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Kiera the Thief, in Orca (1996), Ch. 9

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Broadcast (27 September 1938), quoted in The Times (28 September 1938), p. 10
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“Sometimes Hen… I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”
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