Kit Walker > Kit's Quotes

“It's vodka, baby boy. It hates you. You have to agree to that before you start or you never get anywhere with it.”
― Hannah Birchwood, After the Storm

“TechNICIAN MER—MERRrrrrrrrill,” the Mall says. “Thank you for visiting Me! It is STROngly rec—”

“Abort,” Rich gets out, clutching at his head.

“-COMMENDED THAT YOU UNDERGO DECONTAMINATION PROCEDURES PRIOR TO RE-ENTRANCE TO THE—”

“Decline procedure!”

“MICHIGAN FLEET. YOU ARE ADVISED THAT—”

“Decline procedure, effective immediately, authorization: I’m a fucking tech, I’ll do it myself!”

“...Promise?” the Mall asks.”
― Hannah Birchwood, After the Storm

“Wait . . . where's my e-key?'

This again. A guy who can organise the stuff he does, fix computers and build scale model bridges and pyramids and simulation Mars bases in the backyard for our neighbourhood summer Coyote Camps, and he still misplaces his zap-key nearly every freaking day.

I scan the room.

'Down there. Under the, the left boot of the, uh, R-Mer.'

Yehat scoops it up, stands up, ready to go, but then: 'Ah, my, uh, wallet . . . .'

I scan.

'Side of the couch.'

He digs. He wins.

'Oh . . . and my glasses.'

'On your face.'

'Where would I be without you?'

'Locked outside of house, blind, without money.”
― Minister Faust, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

“The brighter, compassionate things take hard work, but evil somehow always manages to make itself easy. Neglect is easy. Indifference. It's too easy to turn into a monster.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“The world is short-sighted, savage, merciless, unless we choose to act in mercy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“People are always surprised and disturbed by Emily Dickinson's 'reclusive' lifestyle and come up with all sorts of theories to explain her staying in her room, doing her gardening at night, and vanishing upstairs whenever visitors came to call: depression, a skin condition that wouldn't let her out in the sun, lupus, a love affair that ended badly and that she never got over, agoraphobia, epilepsy, etc.

I, however, find her behavior completely understandable. She lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, for God's sake.”
― Connie Willis, The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories