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“We’re not people,” he said. “We’re the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine.” “Men are fighters,” Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. “Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It’s always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.” “And look where it got us,” Holden said.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“It seemed to her that the real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Nigel went to Toronto on holiday and got his skull cracked by a hockey puck.”
― Kevin Hearne, Ink & Sigil

“A toast! Tae inks and sigils and straight razors, tae good bosses and wizards on lizards, tae outsmarting evil when ye can and kicking its arse when ye cannae do that, and tae distillers of fine spirits everywhere. Sláinte!”
― Kevin Hearne, Ink & Sigil

“I will never love again, for my heart has gone to ice and ashes. Nothing more can matter in the face of all that has been lost. It is a terrible thing, to be a mother with no children. It is a terrible thing, to be alone.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Killing Frost

“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

“We also both know that when it comes to getting people to deny their own immediate needs in favor of a greater good, asking nicely almost never works.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls

“I think about all the things we could have done, all the miracles we could have achieved, if we were all just a little bit better than it turns out we are.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls

“Eric Carter. King of the dead.”
― Stephen Blackmoore, Broken Souls

“Yes. My soul is shitty whisky, my body is a shot glass. Do you mind?”
― Stephen Blackmoore, Bottle Demon

“If you pay someone for sex and the law finds out, they arrest you. If you pay someone for sex and your neighbors find out, they judge you. If you pay someone for sex and a corporation finds out, they offer to rent you a room.”
― Scott Meyer, Destructive Reasoning

“in all honesty, worrying about losing your privacy is like wringing your hands because unicorns are going extinct.”
― Scott Meyer, Destructive Reasoning

“Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.”
― Jack McDevitt, Omega

“Just because you’re vaccinated doesn’t mean other people are or that you can’t still transmit to the uninoculated, so don’t be an asshole.”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

“if you can ping the SecUnit, it’s way too late.”
― Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry

“Can you believe cows? They give you squirts to make a sauce for their own meat! How considerate is that?”
― Kevin Hearne, Canines & Cocktails

“seagulls are the squirrels of the sky.”
― Kevin Hearne, Canines & Cocktails

“He led me through drab hallways full of dull offices possessed of all the life and nourishment of cauliflower that had been boiled twenty minutes too long.”
― Kevin Hearne, Candle & Crow