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“The abyss is a desert; no one can afford the luxury of waiting for better odds.”
― Peter Watts, Starfish

“And she almost laughs as she realizes, three thousand meters from the nearest sunlight, that it’s only dark when the lights are on.”
― Peter Watts, Starfish

“If you did things because you were evil, you were in real trouble. If you did the same things because you were sick, though, the doctors would sometimes cover for you. Fischer had learned to be sick.”
― Peter Watts, Starfish

“Life evolves. Parasites evolve. Sex evolves to counter the parasites. Shuffles the genes so the parasites have to shoot for a moving target. Everything else—species diversity, density-dependence, everything—it all follows from those three laws. You get a self-replicating string past a certain threshold, it’s like a nuclear reaction.”
― Peter Watts, Starfish

“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“I’d say, ‘Pass the butter’, and Dad would say, Denny, are you sure the army is what you want? I’d say, ‘Pass the butter someone, okay?’ and Mom would ask Denny if he wanted her to pick him up one of the Pendleton shirts on sale downtown, and I’d end up getting the butter myself.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas

“There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

“There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

“and at the end all there may be is the stupid, unthinking scream of living tissue.”
― Stephen King, The Talisman

“When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mug shots of the bought and sold? Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Vineland