Jeatherhane Reads

“I asked him where he was from. He said thank you very much. Westerners can't learn Japanese.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“Just think of all the confidence we start out with, all the certainty. And then we embark and we fail, much to our surprise. And then we fail something else, and gradually the surprise dwindles and soon we are surprised by nothing and thus are made adults.”
― Lynn Coady, Watching You Without Me

“The way he said "an Internet" made me believe he was telling the truth. You can always tell when an old person has no idea what you are talking about, because they mess up the wording almost as if they are trying to defeat the thing you are discussing by refusing to name it correctly. I call this technique senior-citizen word voodoo.”
― Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing

“Yellow came towards me and touched the side of my helmet. It took tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red