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“Theres a dignity in consequences.”
“Deads not good, but at least its simple.”
“The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.”
“You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.”
“Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, yknow, whatever.”
“Its herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.”
“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”
“All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it w...”
“A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.”
“In the artifacts that are conscious, memories of vanished lives still flicker. Tissues that were changed without dying hold the moment that a boy heard his sister was leaving home. They hold multip...”
“He is, however, Amos continued, keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israels reactor.Holden ran his fingers through his hair. So not too generous, then.Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo sl...”
“His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of viol...”
“It throbbed with an inhuman power, tidal and deep and painful. Look at this too long, Elvi thought, and I will lose my mind in it. She took a step toward it, feeling the structures in the blackness...”
“The sex, he said. I just wanted to make sure that we were okay. That things were all right between us.Well, she said, orgasm does release a lot of oxytocin, so Im probably more fond of you than bef...”
“The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe li...”
“The moral high ground is a lovely place. It wont stop a missile, though. It wont alter the trajectory of a gauss round.”
“The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only ...”
“Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?”
“Your fancy alien train is broken?""My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade...”
“The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth a...”
“Im a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.”
“You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. Im not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.”
