Rama II (Rama, #2)
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Those zealots on the American West Coast would make smoking a felony if they could.
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Nicole prepared for the coming onslaught by taking a small sip of the champagne and cassis cocktail that had been handed to her by a strangely insistent robot a few minutes before.
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I wouldn't trust that.
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She extended a small tray with half a dozen dark chocolate balls lightly sprayed with white, possibly a sugar confection. “These are fantastic,” Francesca said. “I made them especially for the Newton crew.”
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Don't eat that!
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après-ski
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"It's not so much an afterlife", said Arthur, "more a sort of apres vie..." #unexpectedHHGTTG
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“So tomorrow the little bastard will be gone,” Francesca said coldly, her eyes tired and angry. “It’s a damn good thing. The world doesn’t need another half-black baby.” Francesca didn’t wait for Nicole’s response.
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Ooh! Bitch gotta go!
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It’s a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction, Nicole said to herself.
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Nicole nimbly descended to the floor. “I guess you’d better come down,” she called to Richard.
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Sonequa Martin-Green would be amazing as Nicole. I'm reading this book in her voice.
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“The car itself,” Richard said to Nicole after studying the image, “is less than two centimeters tall. What’s going to ride in it? Ants?”
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What is this? A center for ants?!
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“I love you,” she said.
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He just told you he bodily assaulted two people, one of whom was his wife. And now you instantly love him? Bad messages, man.
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We belong to the universe. We are its children. It’s just pure chance that our atoms have risen to consciousness here on this particular planet.