“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.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold , Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 101)

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