Stop whining like a fucking child. You could have just said, ‘I need your help.’ All right. I need your help. Stop whining like a fucking child. That’s not better.
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...
Q’eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of I offer you the bread of life, but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into Let us violate...
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,
Is it a shark made of ice? Hanoen asked. Or a shark that lives in ice?
If there’s one thing that distinguishes the human species, it is a pathological need to stay connected. The fact your people will interrupt sex to answer your communicators is a scandal across the ent...
I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.
For all we know, this—he scrolled up on the phone screen to find a label—this Wikipedia information database here is compiled by complete idiots.
Danielle Lowen: How are you? I am fine. The group that destroyed Earth Station and made it look like the Colonial Union did it is now planning to nuke the surface of your planet until it glows, and fr...
Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.
Christ on a Popsicle stick.
Cardenia gawked at Rachela I. You’re unbelievable. I worked in marketing, Rachela I said. Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn’t call it that after that point.
Anyone can be a prophet. You just have to say that what you’re talking about is a reflection of God. Or of the gods. Or of some divine spirit. However you want to put it. Whether those things come tru...
You’ve got yourself a cloned body here, Jim.
You’re all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don’t look around to see that the forest is on fire.
You’ll notice that the Intrepid’s inertial dampeners don’t work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns and loop-de-loops any other time and...
You just know this is going to be bad, Susan said.—but when I went to college, Harry continued, throwing a piece of bread at Susan, if your roommate died, you were usually allowed to skip your finals...
Which is why Mom, when she’s being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the vet’s office. Because that’s where Dad brings people to take their balls.