What did you do? Fred asked. There was a button, Holden said. I pushed it. Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn’t it? But
What had been inexplicable became inevitable.
What? Naomi said, an uncertain smile on her lips. Miller blinked. You were laughing a little, Naomi said. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you laugh before. I mean, not when something was funny. I was jus...
What? You’re very beautiful, Holden said. I hope I tell you that often enough. You do. Then I hope I don’t tell you so often it gets annoying. You don’t, she
When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.
Why do I put up with your shit? Because, Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, I’m the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running.
Will you be back? Lydia said. She hadn’t meant to, because she knew in her heart, in her bones, and deeper than that what the answer was. Timmy smiled at her for the last time. I take it back, she tho...
Yes, you’re in charge. That makes me XO, and it’s the XO’s job to tell the captain when he’s being an idiot. You’re being an idiot, sir.
You can’t stop here, Holden said. You have to stop running and get on the right road. Miller looked over his shoulder. The captain stood, real and not, where his inner Julie would have been. Well, tha...
You killed Dresden, Fred said. That’s a problem. It needed to happen. I’m not sure it did, Fred replied, but his voice was careful. Testing. Miller smiled, a little sadly. That’s why it needed to happ...
You live in your own world, dear one. I do, Arjun agreed, running his thumb across the hand terminal’s screen. He looked up. You don’t mind, do you? I love you for it. Stay
You take care of your tools, your tools take care of 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.
Positioning Medina Station as the logical location for a fledgling League of Planets–type government, he at least had the good sense not to say it out loud.
To be monitoring anything we fucking say. If you wanted to discuss menstruation at great length and detail, this is probably our best chance. He’s always been squeamish about women, and no one likes a...
A guy I once knew tried to justify his life choices to me by comparing himself to Genghis Khan. I take it you didn’t find his argument compelling? Murtry asked with a smirk. No, Holden said. And then...
A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are.
Ade, I like you. I mean, I really enjoy your company, he said. I don’t understand why we can’t spend some time together with our clothes on. Holden. Sweetie. Stop it, okay? Stop what? Stop trying to t...
Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion.
Alex leaned forward, grabbing Basia’s hands in his own. It’s still on you. I will never live down not being the person my wife needed after she spent twenty years waitin’ for me. I can never make that...
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