If you leave it again without a direct order, I’ll have the XO beat you to death with a pipe wrench.
If all that was possible, everything was.
I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it’s not obvious what that is. I agree with you, Holden said. Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.
History was drenched in blood.
His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.
He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.
He kind of wished he had a hat.
Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp.
Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of class, race, and opportunity, vicious competition and limited resources...
The lizard living at the base of her spine
The idea of trying to reconnect to humanity again filled him with the presentiment of exhaustion.
If you hear hoofbeats in the distance, your first guess is that they’re horses, not zebras. And you’re hearing hoofbeats and jumping straight to unicorns.
You’ll have something to ride on that doesn’t make your cock look as small as that gaudy turd.
You crazy, Jianguo said. No crew in there. They’ll jump you. Yep. Then why? Because, Amos said, standing up and throwing the towel over his shoulder, I hate waiting. As
What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?
The man he’d once been wasn’t a collection of personality traits. He was the things he knew, the desires of his heart, the skills he had.
Sounds like a noble cause, Verbinski replied. Need four grunts with nothing else to do? Yeah,
Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.
Political favors are how I express affection, she said.
Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma.