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“Oh, there was saving a planet, killing a god and ending the war. But most of all, I lay within those arms.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“you can’t be a duck until you learn to quack.”
― Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

“There were no answers.”
― Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

“I’m glad if we can prepare our students so that they feel self-confident about performing their professional tasks. But it doesn’t fill me with pride to be part of an institution that has provided so many people with the worst times of their lives.”
― Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

“We can never know what it is we don’t know.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Now I know that making choices is the price of being free.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Technology is not Good Tech or Bad Tech. It is the Master who is guilty for what it does.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“One day the world will be ready to accept that humanity, just as it is not constrained by skin colour, gender or nation, is not a condition penned into any one shape.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Sometimes the fear came because you were scared of looking into the eye of the monster and seeing your own reflection.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bear Head

“You don’t have to be a good person. That’s OK. But you’re entitled to be your own person.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bear Head

“The sense of urgency just wasn’t there. Also, you may have noticed, I don’t care.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“I didn’t see the knife until the dude was just about to stab it into my uncle’s corpse.”
― John Scalzi, Starter Villain

“So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“But Wilken was human, so I had to go back and retrieve her stupid ass now.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol