Catastrophe was just one part of what always happened. It was a prelude to what came next.
Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den mother to a crew of a thousand people with their own agendas...
Dammit, Holden said after he’d killed the connection. You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you? Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you, Amos said with a grin....
Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.
Do you believe in the concept of forgiveness? In the possibility of redemption? In the value of every human life, no matter how tainted or corrupted? Fuck no, Bull said. I think it is entirely possibl...
Elvi blinked in puzzlement as Murtry left. Is he mad at me? Sweetie, Amos said, clapping her on the back, that just means you’re not an asshole.
Every great nation, they said, was founded on a knife and a lie.
Everyone here was losing someone. His tragedy was just one among dozens. Hundreds. Thousands. By the time the cascade had run all the way out, maybe millions. When death grew that large, it stopped me...
Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new.
Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it.
Excitement and dread wore each other’s clothes, spoke in the same voice.
For another thing, we’re under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy und...
GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP.
Gah, Prax said, and curled up into a floating fetal ball.
Girl’s at her own father’s funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn’t know how to track the guy down. So a week later, she ki...
Great men, they’re not like you or me. They have other needs. Other rhythms. It’s what sets them apart. But sometimes they go so far into the void we lose sight of them. They lose sight of us.
Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay.
He felt the decision like a seed crystal giving form to the chaos around it, solid, hard, resolute. Desperation, mourning, and a million farewells, one to the other. The word quarantine came to him, a...
He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.
He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it happen. And a very good person loved him. It was more than most people got in a...
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