AoC

“Those who survive in this business develop an intuition for when to argue and when not to argue. Smart guys have figured out that you don’t talk back to stormwardens, warlocks, sorcerers, and witches. The place for reservations is tucked neatly behind the teeth.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“She looked up at the sky and closed her eyes briefly, as if even God would have trouble believing the depths of my ignorance.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night

“You’re going to care! Because those babies are going to come busting out of those sacs, and those babies are the only hope we have, and you know it. Our genes, yours, mine, Celia’s, those genes are the only thing that stand between us and oblivion. And I won’t allow it, David! I refuse it!”
― Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

“Why axes? Why not Lewistons, or rifles, or pistols? Because the space armor of that day could withstand almost indefinitely the output of two or three hand-held projectors; because the resistance of its defensive fields varied directly as the cube of the velocity of any material projectile encountering them. Thus, and strangely enough, the advance of science had forced the re-adoption of that long-extinct weapon.”
― E.E. "Doc" Smith, First Lensman