Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she’ll be haunted by what might be behind it. A
Shouldn’t let go of being educated, he said. Universe spent a lot of time telling you something. Now you’re second-guessing it. Maybe all those other things were getting you ready for this. Something
She’d always found a deep comfort in praying. A profound sense of connection to something infinitely larger than herself. Her atheist friends called it awe in the face of an infinite cosmos. She calle...
She sat at the dining table, a steaming mug of tea in front of her, a distant look in her eyes. Holden couldn’t tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those l...
Sex, in Michio’s experience, was like music. Or language. It could express anything. Now it was rage and sorrow and need.
Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked. Take
Saying ‘no problem’ is a sure sign that everything is about to go terribly wrong, Han said.
People. No matter where he went, no matter what he did, it was all still people. Kelsey
People always whispered when they were hiding. Wrapped in a space suit and surrounded by vacuum, Gomez could have been lighting fireworks inside his armor and no one would have heard it, but he whispe...
Owning your own racing ship wasn’t even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh’s pyramid with a reaction drive.
One of your mothers did the cooking? How traditional,Naomi said with a smirk.
Oh, Anna said. She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough. At
Miller had thought hope was dead. He’d thought all his chances had been played, and then, like a bitch, it all hauled itself up out of the grave. Get
Maybe it was a cumulative process, like smoking cigarettes. One didn’t do much. Five didn’t do much more. Every emotion he’d shut down, every human contact he’d spurned, every love and friendship and...
Keel-mounted rail gun, Alex said with a grin. —that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
Just do not pull that fucking trigger. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't. You will be personally responsible for the deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fu...
Julie had become the part of him that was capable of human feeling.
I’m not asking you to sleep with him. Good, because I don’t use sex as a weapon, Bobbie said. I use weapons as weapons.