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“blackballed from guild roles for two generations, because apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels. On”
― John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire

“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it’ll be here well after they walk away from it. My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“that was less about the fundamental nature of the visions than the fact Gianni kept interrupting Chen, and she was sick of it.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“The benefit of growing older is that you make different mistakes.”
― Theodora Goss, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Pieter was depressed again. Being dead sometimes got to him.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“The sky must never be blue above Manchester.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I never knew an Earth that was unaware of life elsewhere.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“Acting all sanctimonious while spouting bad info was a terrible way to win a debate, but a great way to piss people off.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice . . . I get dessert twice.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“I really do recommend that your species try spawning like normal people do. It is far, far less disturbing.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“of all the things he didn’t feel like talking with his dad about, Jasper Jacobs’ arms were in the top three.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“And if one tendril has turned a nosy, racist white woman into a conduit for disembodied existential evil, he doesn’t want to see what infected NYPD will become.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Bronca does have a vague memory of a weird episode about a mirrored universe where everyone was evil, somehow signified by men wearing goatees? And in this universe they wear manbuns. Whatever.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“the boy comes skeeting out of the pool as if buttered and fired from a buttered-child cannon.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“But the real disaster is that Atlantis became just a story. It failed so catastrophically that the entire human race shifted into a branch of realities in which Atlantis never existed at all.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“They are the single titanic concussion of sound from every subwoofer and every steel drum circle that has ever annoyed elderly neighbors and woken babies while secretly giving everyone else an excuse to smile and dance.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“You were an unfilled hole, but even a hole might be content in its emptiness.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“A blood ward is for those without imagination”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“You didn’t have your original thumb and I’d touched your intestines, which is usually what, fourth date, but you were fine.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“That’s the thing about autocracy. It looks pretty decent while it still looks pretty decent. Survivable, anyway. And it keeps looking like that right up until it doesn’t. That’s how you find out it’s too late.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“This was the problem with thousand-year Reichs. They came and they went like fireflies.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath