“I could bring almost nothing—I scarcely knew what to choose.”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

“Think of the vast amounts of money we shall save on shipping charges, then.”

Chapter 14 (p. 256)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

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