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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)

If she were of Ko-ro-ba, I knew that I could not, for her own welfare, stay with her or help her. - (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 6, Sentence #62)
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6 62 If she were of Ko-ro-ba, I knew that I could not, for her own welfare, View more quotes about stay">stay with her or help her.

Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)

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6 59 Why was the girl alone? Had her protectors been killed? Was she perhaps an escaped slave, fleeing from a hated master? Could she be, like myself, an exile from Ko-ro-ba? Its peoples have been scattered, I said to myself, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side.
6 60 I gritted my teeth.
6 61 The thought ran through my head, no stone may stand upon another stone.
6 62 If she were of Ko-ro-ba, I knew that I could not, for her own welfare, stay with her or help her.
6 63 It would be to invite the Flame Death of the Priest-Kings for one or the other, perhaps both of us.
6 64 I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.
6 65 Slim though her chances might be to escape wild beasts or slavers, they would be greater than the chance of escaping the wrath of the Priest-Kings.
Why was the girl alone? Had her protectors been killed? Was she perhaps an escaped slave, fleeing from a hated master? Could she be, like myself, an exile from Ko-ro-ba? Its peoples have been scattered, I said to myself, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side. I gritted my teeth. The thought ran through my head, no stone may stand upon another stone. If she were of Ko-ro-ba, I knew that I could not, for her own welfare, stay with her or help her. It would be to invite the Flame Death of the Priest-Kings for one or the other, perhaps both of us. I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings. Slim though her chances might be to escape wild beasts or slavers, they would be greater than the chance of escaping the wrath of the Priest-Kings. - (Outlaw of Gor)