I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That’s where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.
I have killed, but I am not a killer because a killer is a monster, and monsters aren’t afraid.
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.
I bet every captain you ever flew under thought you were a gigantic pain in the ass, Fred said finally. I believe my record reflects that, Holden said, trying to hide his relief.
How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you? At least once more?
History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage.
His smile was curious and as serene as a well-fed predator.
His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.
Han thought again of mystical energy fields and said a quiet thank-you to whoever or whatever might be looking out for them
GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP.
Everything changed, and it went right on changing. A terrible thought when things were good, a comforting one now. Whatever happened, she could be certain that things wouldn’t stay the way they were n...
Everything about the former colonial administrative offices made Holden sad. The drab, institutional green walls, the cluster of cubicles in the central workspace, the lack of windows or architectural...
Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,
Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion.
A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are.
Melba thought with a touch of pity.
All monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and clo...
You’ve worked with George R. R. Martin a lot in the past. What kind of advice did he have for this project? Yes, I’ve done a number of projects with him in one incarnation or another. In this case, he...
You’re cranky because you’re tired, Amos said. You got that I-have-to-save-everyone hangup, so I make it that you haven’t slept in about two days. But listening to people bitch? Yeah, that’s sorta you...
You've got a pit bull on one side of you and a rottweiler on the other, first thing you do is drop your steak.