Lock In (Lock In, #1)

by John Scalzi

She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be.

“It’s not an effective protest if it’s not pissing people off.”

“So we’re not doing medical leave after all,” I said. “You can,” Vann said. “Personally, I’m kind of pissed off about being shot. I want to take the people who made it happen and screw them right into the wall.

“You were right,” Tony said. “About me being wrong. But it’s a lot worse than that. A lot worse.”

“There’s justice, and then there’s sticking a knife in someone’s ribs,”