Amber

“Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Heartless it may be, but headless it ain't. I've never claimed to be nice, just to be sensible.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.”
― Clifford D. Simak