Petyr had been talking about mathematics again, boring everyone, when her mother looked up from her plate with a smile and announced that Julie had written a letter to say she’d quit the family. Clari...
Now you’re asking me to explain microwaves to a monkey.
Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician. Their
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.
Never heard of ’em.Yeah, you have, but context is everything, ain’t it?
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.
Later, Amos said, when you’re wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we’ll die.
I’ve watched too many Kurosawa movies, she thought, but couldn’t quite abandon the idea. The imagery was a lovely way of turning angst and suicidal ideation into honor and noble sacrifice.
It’d be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a basket of fucked.
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She'd look up through a dome-covered...
I told you so could be an important message, but the burden of innocent death, of the chaos of a failing civilization might also be too much for one man to carry. Or
I never changed sides, Fred said. The sides keep changing around me. I was always the one who wanted order. Peace. Justice, even.
I care deeply about all the fine details, she said, only actually, I don’t. Sum it up.
Holden was imagining what several hundred rounds of Teflon-coated tungsten steel going five thousand meters per second would do to human bodies when Alex threw down the throttle and a roomful of eleph...
Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.
His parents had raised him to believe that sex was something you did in private not because it was embarrassing, but because it was intimate.
Fred launched himself at Dawes, pushing out with numbed legs, and Dawes scuttled back. Fred landed on the deck hard. The world grayed out for a second, and he tasted blood. He struggled forward, tryin...
Ferns can be very aggressive
But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.