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“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“And the sun comes out, like a kiss on the cheek from God.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“Ethan was partaking in that greatest of white-collar lies, “working from home,” and not feeling at all bad about it. He”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World

“Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, “So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?” Reacher said, “Itinerant. Distributed. Transient. Episodic.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“all talking in a tense and agitated fashion, like a scene in a movie where folks find out the mining company has poisoned their water.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“It’s the great equalizer: black or white, male or female, norm or abnorm, the first thing most people do in the morning—before they even brush their teeth—is reach for their d-pad.”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World

“Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It’s adult swim.”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World

“The scientist in him imagined the scientist in her; he sometimes pictured Violet as a tiny being in the cockpit of a vehicle she didn’t understand. Row upon row of dials and switches and knobs, and no instruction manual. Nothing to do but stab and twist at random and see what happened. Punch that button, this appendage flaps. Interesting.”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World

“But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.”
― Marcus Sakey, Afterlife

“He’d died before she moved to Chicago, but she’d followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the killings of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner.”
― Marcus Sakey, Afterlife

“You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn’t just a broken guy who’d been abused by his uncle or whatever. Wanting to believe that there’s a logic behind insanity.”
― Marcus Sakey, Afterlife

“It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new axe or the old one?”
― Marcus Sakey, Afterlife

“She changed herself, by deciding it.”
― Lee Child, The Midnight Line

“know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn’t know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn’t know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don’t know it, it’s good again.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“kind by instinct, not by effort.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Everyone always respects a guy who’s dealing with personal stuff.”
― Claire North, Touch

“By day the pedestrianised streets of central Belgrade are swamped with the fashionable come to buy fashionable things, to sustain their sense of fashionability, while on the edge of the city the old folk sit, men with drooping cigarettes and time-sunken eyes, who stare at the swaggering world and are not impressed.”
― Claire North, Touch

“Janus wore blue, I wore Patterson Wayne, a businessman from Georgia I’d acquired the day after”
― Claire North, Touch

“A few too many beers had settled on my belly, showing as a bulge of muscle and fat competing for which was going to get the final metabolic say.”
― Claire North, Touch

“Once, in Milan, I was a woman with a handsome face and thick eyebrows that seemed always to rebuke the foolishness of what they beheld.”
― Claire North, Touch

“Newark airport specialised in immigration officers whose every scowl seemed to say that, even if they couldn’t stop you entering the United States, they sure as hell weren’t going to make it easy.”
― Claire North, Touch

“And who will you be when you come back?” “Someone else. Someone new. Me.”
― Claire North, Touch

“Humans and augmented humans shift their weight when they stand, they react to sudden sounds and bright lights, they scratch themselves, they adjust their hair, they look in their pockets or bags to check for things that they already know are in there.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“That could be a good sign, right?” “Sure,” I said. It was a terrible sign.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I felt this would be the point where a human would sigh, so I sighed.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Maybe the schedules hadn’t been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal?”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“It’s what we say in the army when we’re going to beat someone to death.”
― Lee Child, Blue Moon

“A long time ago, I came up with a mental hack to calm my nerves: I tell myself this is just a trial run. This isn’t really it.”
― A.G. Riddle, Winter World

“A landing from space has been described as a train wreck, followed by a car accident, followed by falling off your bike.”
― A.G. Riddle, Winter World