I am Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of Warriors, Ringil recited for him, hollowly. I am Friend to Carrion Crows and Wolves. I am Carry Me and Kill with Me, and Die wit...
Well. Ringil gave the Throne Eternal captain another brittle little smile. You know, the thing about fucking is, it’s a lot less wear and tear than trying to kill each other with bits of steel. And it...
Nyman’s lips tightened to almost anal proportions.
You are still young and stupid. Human life has no value. Haven't you learned that yet, Takeshi, with all you've seen? It has no value, intrinsic to itself. Machines cost money to build. Raw materials...
Is Sullivan at Bay City Central right now?
Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly.
No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.
The past is relevant only as data.
These days, one of them told me one freezing slow-as-Sunday night, we’re all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad.
Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.
He storms down in savage joy, to meet all the waiting blades and hate.
Culture is like a smog. To livewithin it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, becontaminated.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
To recommend change, as this report does, is not to suggest that the problems we address will disappear or no longer require attention. At most they will disappear from view, and this may very well be...
These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.
Shopping is physical interaction, exercise of decision-making capacity, sating of the desire to acquire, and an impulse to more acquisition, a scouting urge. It’s so basically fucking human when you t...
She blinked and kissed me abruptly, somewhere between mouth and cheek. It was an inaccuracy I didn't try to correct either way. I turned away before I could see if there were going to be any tears and...
It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.
I nodded. Good luck. What? I thought one of us should say it. Didn’t look like it was going to be you.
He’s a pretty serious believer.’ ‘Yeah? Funny how it doesn’t get in the way of his commercial life.’ ‘Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know.