Max > Max's Quotes

“The problem with judgement calls is that they’re only ever good or bad in retrospect.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“My children, let us not do that again. I, for one, am too old for shit even vaguely related to that.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“To Havaer, as a professional agent, the thought of the paperwork alone filled him with dread.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“I've heard all the things they say about my people across the Colonies, Idris. Probably they think I'm a monster who'll come and kill their menfolk and make regular humanity a footnote in our triumphal histories, right? Or else we're sex-starved sirens who just need to meet a good man to forswear all our Amazon ways."

"You've seen some mediotypes."

"Executor training means exposure to some weird stuff. I'd rather have stayed a simple myrmidon.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“He was as tightly polite as any New Englander raised by strict Irish parents, who hadn't been brought up in an entertaining household.”
― S.T. Gibson

“You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”
― Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together

“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“What are Pyrrha’s nicknames for you?”
“Kiddie,” said Nona immediately. “Junior. Small Fry. Cutie Pie. Li’l Bits. Small Cam. Hairy Maclary.”
“Keep going.”
“Nums. No-No. Nope. None. Sweet Nons. Nona-Palona. The Big No.”
“She should be arrested,” murmured Camilla, then: “Got it.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth