Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
At least one tribe, the Geln, strongly opposed attacking the Colonial Union, since humans were reasonably strong, distressingly tenacious and not especially principled when they felt threatened.
At dinner members of the 8th enthusiastically told each other to pass the fucking salt, you fucking sack of shit, until Brahe told them to quit that goddamn shit, cocksuckers, because it got old prett...
A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part.
You don’t have paperwork, Savitri said. You give it all to me. Is it done? I asked. As far as you know, yes, Savitri said.
Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole, Szilard said. And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.
While landing a spacecraft on a planet via Skip Drive navigation was officially and strongly discouraged by the Colonial Union, the Colonial Defense Forces recognized the strategic value of sudden and...
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
What was your job back on Earth? I’ve always been curious. I taught eighth-grade math in Tallahassee. Huh, I said. That’s not what I expected. Are you kidding? Powell said back. You try teaching algeb...
What if I told you that that which makes you fundamentally human is something that you share with another people, a people so different from you that they might appear strange or frightening at first...
Well, that's science fiction television for you, though, Abnett said. Someone's got to be the red shirt.
Well, life is like that sometimes, Isabel said. We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them.
The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went...
Remember that the plant wants to eat you, the groundskeeper said. It’s not going to let you get away. Don’t fight it. Let yourself be eaten. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m finding your advice...
One of Harvey’s guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down...
I’m a ‘the glass is half-empty and filled with poison’ kind of guy, actually,
I didn’t mind getting old when I was young, either, I said. It’s the being old now that’s getting to me.
Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too? Vann asked. She did not, I said. It may have been implied.
Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.
Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman’s uniform, writing up a ticket.