Shooting people was such a stupid activity, why should everybody-anybody!-be so impressed? Silver wondered irritably. You would think she had done something truly great, like discover a new treatment for black stem-rot. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Shooting people was such a stupid activity, why should everybody-anybody!-be so impressed? Silver wondered irritably. You would think she had done something truly great, like discover a new treatment for black stem-rot.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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