Nothing like the stupid shit people do for a captain when they're really invested in not seeing how fucked up he is.
No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get.
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?
Naomi made an exasperated sound. It was funny, he thought, how you could make someone’s voice out from the smallest sounds. A cough or a sigh. Or the little gasp right before she died.
Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.
Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.
I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic, but … He waved a hand vaguely, like he was stirring...
I’m saying let’s go see if we can find some horses or zebras before we start a unicorn hunt.
It’s funny, Clarissa said. Most of human history, going to the moon was impossible. A dream beyond anyone’s imagination. And then, for a while, it was an adventure. And then it was trivial. Yesterday,...
It wasn’t as though they had a second Earth to use as a control. History itself was a massive n = 1 study, irreproducible. It was what made it so difficult to learn from.
It was strange how a person could be so vitally important in your life, and yet you had nothing to say to them when they weren’t sharing the same air.
It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive...
It didn’t blow up last time, Han said. Maybe it won’t blow up this time, either.
In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.
If the medical bay could have raised its eyebrows and made judgmental little tsk-tsk sounds, it would have. Instead,
If the last few weeks had taught Han anything, it was that he didn’t belong in the civilised part of her world. His place was in the bowels of the , or the pilot’s seat.
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 wouldn’t want people to judge me by what I did in my twenties.
I was afraid you were in trouble for a second, Your Highnessness, Han said, but the barb sounded hollow and unconvincing. Leia looked up at him, and the softness in her face told him that she’d heard...