If all that was possible, everything was.
His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.
Ferns can be very aggressive, Prax said.
What the Earthers had discovered is that when people have nothing else to do, they have babies.
She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
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.
Let me get this straight, he said. You’ll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you? Dresden
Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself into a solid lump of silicon if it thinks it's being tampered with. Who knows what the military ver...
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...
I told you before that Johnson would be off the board, and he will be. We didn’t take him at Tycho, and we’ll take him somewhere else. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time. Ros...
Humans, Havelock knew from long experience, were first and foremost social animals, and he himself was profoundly human. It was more romantic—hell, more masculine—to pretend he was an island, unaffect...
History was drenched in blood.
History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster,
GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP.
Do we have a plan?A couple. Jim said.Either of them good?Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible.
Those kids? They’re illegal, but they don’t just vanish, not
Things change, Alex said. And they don’t change back, she
There’s a thing that happens, Avasarala said, when unthinkable things become thinkable. We’re in a moment of chaos. Everything’s up for grabs. Legitimacy itself is up for grabs. That’s where we are no...
The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only...