Georgen Charnes > Georgen's Quotes

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“One A.F.S. man wrote bluntly: ‘Everybody loots . . . The A.R.P. Wardens, Demolition Men . . . the Police.”
― Norman Longmate, How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

“After lying uncollected for weeks the whole heap of broken bicycles, dented petrol cans, and the rest, was taken back to the same dump where, I suspect, it remains to this day.”
― Norman Longmate, How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

“One result of the book boom was the growth of new publishers, who could use any paper they could find—they often advertised for ‘free’ supplies—and were not rationed to a fraction of their pre-war consumption. Lacking ‘back lists’ they specialised in new books and the public found it bewildering that new titles should constantly be published while textbooks and classics remained unobtainable.”
― Norman Longmate, How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

“Explain! Perhaps you’d like to explain it to me, too. I’m not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.” And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought.”
― Connie Willis, Doomsday Book

“Was it good?” I clenched my jaw and stared at the floor, face flaming. She let out a slightly giddy laugh. “Holy shit.” “Just—just drop it, all right?” “Right, okay, but I’m curious now. How big is his—” “Amalia!” “Ugh, fine.” She huffed, then leaned back, hands propped on the mattress. “So you’re in love with Zylas—and banging him.” I”
― Annette Marie, Delivering Evil for Experts

“If you were a payashē, it means you choose me for your bed.” His hooded gaze gauged my reaction. “But you are not a payashē.”
― Annette Marie, Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped

“He might literally rip Jax’s arm off. He’d done it once before. It was a bitch to put back on.”
― R.A. Boyd, The Shifter's Wish

“I wouldn’t be anyone’s doormat, not even a fifteen-hundred-year-old demon with the body of a Greek god and the personality of a crocodile.”
― Brenda K. Davies, Good Intentions

“The fox plushie had her mouth open as if she were surprised. I grimaced a little. She was going to be surprised all right.”
― Heather G. Harris, Glimmer of the Other

“If there is a sexier sight than a man doing dishes, I don’t know what it is.”
― Heather G. Harris, Glimmer of Hope

“You know, some human women get it removed. They don’t like it.” “Truly?” I am surprised by this. “I like it, though. It is different, but that does not make it bad. It makes it mysterious.” Air-ee giggles again. “My mysterious cunt mane. Lovely.”
― Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Beloved

“Our Archive is really what St Mary’s is all about. As Dr Bairstow always says – it’s important to have a true record of events. Not the political version, not the religious version, not the version put about by the winners – and definitely not the bought-and-paid-for version – but the actual, warts and all, correct version.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Good, The Bad and The History

“Our Archive is really what St Mary’s is all about. As Dr Bairstow always says – it’s important to have a true record of events. Not the political version, not the religious version, not the version put about by the winners – and definitely not the bought-and-paid-for version – but the actual, warts and all, correct version. Given the way History has been rewritten, reimagined or downright faked over the last hundred years or so, you can imagine how many people would like to get their hands on our Archive. To misrepresent, alter, amend or completely obliterate the inconvenient bits of History not quite in line with current fashionable thinking. And if that ever did happen, everything we had ever accomplished would be a complete waste of time because we wouldn’t be able to go back and do it again. There are no do-overs in History.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Good, The Bad and The History

“Never turn your back on an indexer, Max. Or an archivist. Especially an archivist. Just plain bonkers, every single one of them. Rituals,’ he added mysteriously. ‘Among the stacks. The more powerful archivists can actually hear the documents whispering their secrets to each other in the dead of night. Never ever venture into an archive without the most powerful protection you can afford.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Good, The Bad and The History

“Even with George, she’d taken things slowly at first – and then, afterwards, she had to admit there’d been a certain element of the sunk costs fallacy at play: she’d invested so much in the relationship that it felt stupid to break things off.”
― Zoe Chant, A Mate for the Dragon

“Of course he’s hot. Mrs Collins is almost fucking blind with cataracts and even she did a double take when he walked down the end of the shop.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“Come,” he ordered. Gladly. I snickered to myself. I was going to hell. He glanced down at me, but said nothing.”
― Alisha Sunderland, American Werewolf in Space

“What is it, girl? Did Timmy fall down the well?” Patty asked, grinning at me, bent at the waist and slapping her knees.”
― Alisha Sunderland, American Werewolf in Space

“I loved my mate, but damn, why couldn’t he have been a non-space traveling barbarian species that would stuff me in a cave and keep me naked and pregnant for the rest of my life?”
― Alisha Sunderland, American Werewolf in Space

“Ohem had explained that AI was unreliable and dangerous at the best of times so no sentient race trusted them,”
― Alisha Sunderland, American Werewolf in Space

“It’s giving medieval fantasy," Patty mock whispered.”
― Alisha Sunderland, Zero Dark Bloodthirsty

“With a great wrench, Ohem tore him in half vertically. Which was way harder than, say, tearing a body in half from the stomach. Way harder. I was so horny right now.”
― Alisha Sunderland, Zero Dark Bloodthirsty

“That was the problem with erasing history. Even if they’d kept their side open for public consumption—big fat lie that it was—they could have, at the very least, recognized what I was. The soldiers on the ground could have known what was killing them, and the survivors could have reported back, so the command structure was up to speed and prepared to nuke me from orbit. But no, they’d kept it forbidden, hidden away in dusty archives of the most powerful families, forgotten, except by one very nerdy history fanatic.”
― Alisha Sunderland, Zero Dark Bloodthirsty

“That had always been a problem in Lily’s relationships. Too independent to make men feel comfortable. Why did they always want her to need them? Wasn’t it better if she didn’t?”
― Victoria Aveline, Saving Verakko

“I watched you walk away from me several times tonight, and I can tell you from where I was standing, they served a very useful purpose.”
― Victoria Aveline, Resisting Maxu

“Here there be dragons ―Really Old Maps”
― Aidy Award, Chase Me

“He hated to have anyone else in, around, or near his treasure, but he hated the thought of having another dragon in, around, or near, especially not in, his little thief.”
― Aidy Award, Chase Me

“I seem to have the relationship intelligence of a four-year-old wheel of cheese.”
― Aidy Award, Chase Me