Chris Robinson

“Wait for the real problem, Your Excellency. Don’t borrow trouble that doesn’t come to you on its own.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“I have always loved stories, and I have always preferred to see them dressed in the garb of the fantastic. There is something about the displacement of real-life situations into a nonmimetic world that stimulates my desire to reflect on the here and now.”
― Simone Caroti, The Generation Starship in Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934–2001

“But what’s peace for merchants? Since the driving force of commerce is only to expand itself, the job of its general is never done. I’ll be serving my master’s ambition until I’m dead.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Good gods, the madness is catching, Moist thought as the glow of the golem’s eyes disappeared into darkness outside. I’m not the postmaster, I’m some poor bastard who’s the victim of some stupid . . . experiment. What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal