# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped

> Mavin shook her head, but withheld any judgment. If there was anything she had learned in long travels here and there, it was that to most people in the world, every unfamiliar thing was considered unacceptably strange.

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-flight-of-mavin-manyshaped.md)
- Page: 55
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## More from this book

> There is a kind of animal frenzy can be whipped up sometimes among fools and children, often using religion as an excuse for it. When it happens, it is wise to be elsewhere.

p. 45 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-flight-of-mavin-manyshaped/there-is-a-kind.md)

> I’ll tell you, nothing is so dangerous as ambition in a man who cares not who stands in his way.

p. 48 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-flight-of-mavin-manyshaped/ill-tell-you.md)

> “Oh, but I am soiled beyond all cleansing.…”
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> “Nonsense,” said Mavin impatiently. “You are silly beyond all belief, but that is your sole sin I am aware of, young man.”

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-flight-of-mavin-manyshaped/oh-but-i-am-soiled.md)