It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.
Oh, I’m not dying out here, Amos said, and pointed toward the interior of the ship with his chin. Worst-case scenario, I’m dying inside there.
The concrete replaces the forest. You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks.
If you start feeling wonderful and powerful and like you’ve seen the face of God, you’re having a euphoric attack.
You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.
Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins and what parts of it don’t count.
So I have a thing. Is it a thing I can fix? Holden asked. Point me at the thing.
It was the security man’s nightmare scenario. In the face of death, why wouldn’t there be riots? Why wouldn’t there be killing and theft and rape? If there were no consequences – or if all the consequ...
Tilly screamed. Anna’s shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem?
Shift in language is shift in consciousness, yeah, Josep
It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there. Shaking,
Nothing as big as a revolution can survive with only one account of it.
They’d been driven to find out what was on the other side of the long trip. Driven by a need to see shores no one else had ever seen before. Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doo...
Hello, James Holden. My name is Fred Johnson.
Meditating deeply so that she could really, clearly experience being angry and lonesome and hurt and horror-struck never seemed as good as a strong gin and tonic and another hour of work.
God, save me from temperance, Tilly said. You haven't seen a party till you get a group of Anglicans and Catholics trying to beat each other to the bottom of a bottle.Now, that's not nice, Mrs Fagan,...
What the Earthers had discovered is that when people have nothing else to do, they have babies.
Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you. And
God save us all from good-looking men.
She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
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