Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.
Don’t bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight,
Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie.
Christ on a Popsicle stick.
Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the p...
This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I have master my life. My rife, without me, is useless. Without my rife, I...
There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it...
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
Really really really difficult, Tony allowed. But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe.
Mom, I remember Lizzie, Hart said. She’s really not my type. She has a brother, Wes said, from his lounge. He’s not my type, either, Hart said.
If they can work out the kinks, it could revolutionize space travel. ‘Work out the kinks’? Jared said. I’m about to use this thing. Kinks are bad.
I have always found that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.
I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.
Hide’ isn’t a word we like to use, Cassaway said. ‘Perform alternative tasks’ is the preferred term.
Hickory clicked something to Dickory in their native tongue; Dickory clicked back. Hickory responded, and Dickory replied, it seemed a bit forcefully. And then, God help me, Hickory actually sighed.
Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yoursel...
Ensign Davis thought, Screw this, I want to live, and swerved to avoid the land worms. But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway.
And when I say exploded I mean interacted catastrophically with the topography of space/time in ways we’re not entirely able to explain, but explode gets the gist of it, particularly with regard to wh...
You’ve got yourself a cloned body here, Jim.