A person was like a city. You couldn’t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don’t like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.
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“Reacher worked on the principle that you should eat when you can so that you won’t have to when you can’t.”
― The Secret
― The Secret
“Eating’s gross, isn’t it? In the abstract, I mean. When you’re used to hyperspace recharging stations, to sunlight and cosmic rays, when most of the beauty you’ve known lies in a great machine’s heart, it’s hard to see the appeal of using bones that poke from spit-coated gums to mash things that grew in dirt into a paste that will fit down the wet tube connecting your mouth to the sack of acid under your heart.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“We even broke up the sorting job into batches and shipped it off to commercial grids—Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.”
― Quantum Radio
― Quantum Radio
“Reacher’s pass said he was in boarding group one but four other categories of customers were called before him, which offended his sense of order.”
― In Too Deep
― In Too Deep
“But he’s thick and terribly old, maybe in his forties.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
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