“Let’s be sensible and wish for both of us there, while we’re wishing. I mean, it’s not like wishes are rationed.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold , Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 490)

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