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At night Tyrion would oft hear her praying. A waste of words. If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. Who else would make a world like this, so full of bondage, blood, and pain?

Daenerys

"Procrastinate, obscure, prevaricate, dissemble, and delay all you like, Uncle, Ser Balon must still come face-to-face with Myrcella at the Water Gardens, and when he does he's like to see she's short an ear."

The Windblown

"Cousin, take this creature to the Wolf's Den and cut off his head and hands. I want them brought to me before I sup. I shall not be able to eat a bite until I see this smuggler's head upon a spike, with an onion shoved between his lying teeth."

Jon

A faraway object is actually is actually sitting right next to you; it looks small because it really is small. You can't touch it not because it's distant but because it's so tiny that your fingers lack the finesse to manipulate it. When things grow or shrink, we perceive that as movement toward or away from us.

Space Is Toast No Matter What

The EPR Paper

Blown minds are an occupational hazard in physics.

Chapter Thirty: Wherein Our Heroes Endure Perdition's Flames

He was expecting to find that fire normally seen in Eliza's gaze to be a raging inferno—instead, there was a vacant stare, as if she were simply a clockwork automaton.

"Buona sera, Signora. Come sta?" "Ci sentiamo bene," a low female voice cooed through the crackle of the auralscope, "E voi?"

"Blimey!" he swore, looking at all the various combinations and sequences available for the Archives' confounded difference contraption.

Chapter Nine:
Wherein Wellington Books Acts a Perfect Gentleman, but Is Not Above a Little Skullduggery Too

Chapter Four Where Our Dashing Hero of History and Cataloguing Undertakes the Taming and Training of This Shrew!

Alas, the intervening twenty-five years or so have not been kind to string theory.

The quantum world first proposed by Bohr, and refined mathematically by Schrödinger and Heisenberg, defies all commonsense notions based on our experience with objects on a human scale.

He had to respect the protomolecule. For something that had been been expecting prokaryotic anaerobes, it was doing a bang-up job of making do.

Oh, and aliens. Aliens that had tried to take over the Earth two billion years ago, and failed because Saturn got in the way. Can't forget the aliens.

"Warning! Accidental detonation on the cargo ship Guy Molinari has broken large cargo container free. Warning to all ships in its path: Container is traveling at high speed and without independent control. Warning!"

Out beyond them, like something from Hieronymous Bosch, the casino levels of Eros prepared for death.

Five hours later, the government of Ceres collapsed.

Chapter Fourteen: Miller

"You're saying the Martian Navy did this?"

...without patent protection on software, the mp3 would never have existed.

„This is our final release. Enjoy!”