When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the...
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,
Routine was what kept the darkness at bay, when anything did.
Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that’s weird. That or Oh shit.
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...
Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.
Nothing degraded morale like the sense that the potential for excellence was being denied.
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician. Their
No matter how egalitarian a group might start out, someone always wound up taking a leadership role.
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.
Maybe one sad detective pulling a nuclear weapon on a wagon would slip through their defenses.
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.
In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.
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.
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 don’t understand, Holden said. If you didn’t do this, then who did?See now, that’s a good question, on several levels. Depending on what you mean by ‘this.
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.
History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.