Are we there yet? I asked Joshua. No, Joshua said. Are we there yet? I said. No. Are we there yet? No. Are we there yet? Yes, Joshua said. Stop the car.
Just accept you’re drinking from the fire hose and open wide.
I’m a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant. Ah, repression, Keyes said. Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please. I can’t promise anythi...
I've always liked swimming, so long as my head's above water.
I was just talking about you, Cardenia said, coming up to him. To your imaginary friends, I see. They’re not imaginary. They’re just not real. Very subtle distinction.
I seem to be good at speaking the politicians’ language, Szilard said. Apparently there’s an advantage around here to being mildly socially retarded, and that’s the Special Forces for sure.
I despise you and I love you, you who are my damnation and salvation both.
How do you like your peace now, motherfucker?
He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed,
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.
He didn’t exactly have the programmer look to him, if you know what I mean. He’d be the programmer’s boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.
[I]t was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail.
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.
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.
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...
The Scooby gang doesn’t travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they’re one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred’s got them all snookered. It probably has so...