“Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
Sadly, it wasn’t even a record.”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold , Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

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