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“Their collaboration method seems similar to popular open-source practices, like the kind used to make the Linux operating system.”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

“We all understand the historical significance of the pendulum. It’s intended to hypnotize God.”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

“You are nothing more than a program. As for the rest of you, you’re either programs or idiots. I will log back on!”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

“One boy … One dragon … A world of adventure.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Especially when you’re around to cuckold the husband.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Rhunön went up to Saphira’s shoulder and tapped a scale with one of her blunt fingernails, twisting her head from side to side in an attempt to peer into the translucent pebble. “Good color. Not like those brown dragons, all muddy and dark.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“Ugh,” said Eragon, hefting his load.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“No way," I say. "This is no picnic”
― Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“He cringed”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Breeze cringed,”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Sazed cringed”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“The girl in Vin's arms cringed”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Prisoners cringed”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“The vile smell made him cringe,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Vin cringed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“And Arya! He cringed,”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“enjoying making the dinner-goers cringe,”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“The soldiers cringed”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“I cringed.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“epic mode.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“Whatever his antecedents he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“He coughed quietly, gingerly, and dabbed”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Whose apartment is this?”
“Marisa’s. I told you.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—”
― Mika Waltari, The Egyptian