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“Absolute silence of the kind that only the inside of an ancient, country church can bestow.”
― Anna Faversham, Beware the Midnight Train

“she might as well be arguing with the firearms instructor at the gun range about why we all have to point our weapons in the same direction.”
― Andrew Mayne, Death Stake

“After all that work and getting blown up, I'm exhausted. Tomorrow I'll have to do a million equipment checks and try to figure out what exploded, but for now I just want to sleep.
I'm in the rover again tonight. Even with the hydrogen gone, I'm reluctant to hang out in a Hab that has a history of exploding for no reason.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“When you live your whole life in one town, you know all the places where tragedy has occurred, because bad memories are as permanent as gravestones.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Spy Coast