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“If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“You will be turning thirty soon, Mr. Kawana, which means that, from now on, you will gradually enter that twilight portion of life—you will be getting older.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Thank you,” she said, remembering her manners. And then, after some consideration: “I’m sorry I fell asleep.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“Darren smiled. “He saved my life and my dog’s life. He loves pit bulls.” “That’s all I need to hear.”
― Neal Wooten, Pit Bulls vs Aliens

“Ceilings weren’t put on rooms to amuse people.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Changing into shorts, he took a cold can of beer from the refrigerator and drank it, standing, while he heated a large pot of water. Before the water boiled, he stripped all the leathery edamame pods from the branch, spread them on a cutting board, and rubbed them all over with salt. When the water boiled, he threw them into the pot.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Tengo chopped a lot of ginger to a fine consistency. Then he sliced some celery and mushrooms into nice-sized pieces. The Chinese parsley, too, he chopped up finely. He peeled the shrimp and washed them at the sink. Spreading a paper towel, he laid the shrimp out in neat rows, like troops in formation. When the edamame were finished boiling, he drained them in a colander and left them to cool. Next he warmed a large frying pan and dribbled in some sesame oil and spread it over the bottom. He slowly fried the chopped ginger over a low flame.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“He put the sliced celery and mushrooms into the frying pan. Turning the gas flame up to high and lightly jogging the pan, he carefully stirred the contents with a bamboo spatula, adding a sprinkle of salt and pepper. When the vegetables were just beginning to cook, he tossed the drained shrimp into the pan. After adding another dose of salt and pepper to the whole thing, he poured in a small glass of sake. Then a dash of soy sauce and finally a scattering of Chinese parsley.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“He was tempted to add something like I am allowed to coin terms but didn’t want things to get snarky this early in the meeting.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“I think I’m in love,” she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“If it’s wearing red, yellow, or both, it’s a lama,” he said. “Bow to it.” “Isn’t that a camel from South America?”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“The narration had lasted for the better part of an hour despite Markus’s increasingly frequent and obvious glances at his Swiss watch, and left all the others in a strange combination of spellbound, bored, horrified, and bemused.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?" asked Nothing.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Felt-tip markers, always a scarce resource even on Earth, became objects of great value as people used them to mark directions on the walls of hamster tubes and habitat modules.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Percepliquis