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“Fairness is a concept taught to nice children: it is the governing principle of kindergartens and summer camps and playgrounds and soccer fields.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“Posting online is like leaving your front door open and telling any creature of the night it can enter.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“I don’t know that it will matter even then,” Cardenia said. “I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.”
― John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire

“Amos will be murdered by space hookers, but at least he’ll die the way he lived.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“I bet every captain you ever flew under thought you were a gigantic pain in the ass,” Fred said finally. “I believe my record reflects that,” Holden said, trying to hide his relief.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?” Amos said. “Give ’em a break. It’s their first.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“We’re all traitors now.” “Ha!” the old lady said. “Only if we lose.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“The problem with you is that you are wasteful.” “I’m not a fucking coward,” Fred said through his rapidly swelling lip. “Of course you are. You’re smart, you’re healthy. Maybe a few hundred people out of forty billion have your combination of talent and training. And you’re trying to waste that very valuable resource.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station

“His lieutenant chuckled. “Here, kiddies,” the lieutenant said. “We blew the shit out of your station, have some free MREs and UN Marine sticker books.” Fred didn’t laugh.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station

“You’re not staying behind,” Holden said. “You’re keeping the crew alive while I do something really stupid. It’s why we’re an awesome team. You’re the captain now.” “That’s a shit job and you know it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“There is a period of developmental sociopathy in every life,”
― James S.A. Corey, The Vital Abyss

“What astounded me was that the cutting edge of human knowledge was so close. Before I educated myself, I assumed that there was a great depth of science, that every question of importance had been cataloged, studied, that all the answers were there, if only someone could query the datasets the right way. And for some things, that was true.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Vital Abyss

“Later,” Amos said, “when you’re wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we’ll die.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,” she said. “We don’t do that here.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“A mom at a PTA meeting the year before had taken Rosie aside to advise her not to tack condoms to a bulletin board next to the bed, no matter how convenient a storage solution that seemed, a lesson she confessed, nodding at a first-grader in the corner licking paste off his fingers, she had learned the hard way.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Easy is nice, but it’s not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in,” said Penn. “Easy is nice, but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“We stood in front of that hill as if it were an altar, a consecrated knoll displaying the colonizer’s gifts to the bloodline: Christianity, education, and rank.”
― Cinelle Barnes, Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir

“The mountain shrugs, but thinks nothing of the houses crushed in the avalanche. That was not its purpose.” “And that’s meant to be comforting?” “Yes,” said Mokoya, a little too earnestly. “Because it’s not about you, or what you’ve done. There’s no bigger reason to things.”
― J.Y. Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven

“This is as good as it gets. Can’t expect everyone to be on the same page. We’re still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“Wake me up, make me think, or buy me a drink. Otherwise, fuck off.”
― Michael Rutger, The Anomaly

“Nobody gets through life without being an asshole,”
― Michael Rutger, The Anomaly

“Think about where you’ll be—where your daughters will be—when the courts turn back the clock. Think about words like ‘spousal permission’ and ‘paternal consent.’ Think about waking up one morning and finding you don’t have a voice in anything.”
― Christina Dalcher, Vox

“that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons of the life we left behind continue to chase us.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“avoidance and wishful-thinking forms of coping “significantly predicted resiliency” among Appalachian teens. Their paper suggests that hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“I’ll die for that,” Emma said. “I’ll die so that people can be fuckups and still find mercy.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“He wanted us to praise him for his tough love, which was really a way of encouraging students to thank him for not hurting us as much as he could.”
― Kiese Laymon, Heavy