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"The miraculous armour that had saved him along the way, making him invisible, forcing people to turn away from the fugitive and not to notice him, to let him through all the outposts and checkpoints, had now turned back into a stinking, shitty scab."

"time was something rather symbolic: like books, like attempts to set up schools for the children - a demonstration that the station residents continued to care, that they did not want to degenerate, that they were still human beings."

"Death isn't frightening by itself. What's frightening is expecting it."

Artyom, justifying the expense of an alcoholic beverage, is quite relatable:🍸

"Yes, and it was only for three more cartridges, and what's three cartridges if you exchange them for a phial of a sparkling elixir which helps you to come to terms with the imperfection of this world and restores a certain harmony?"

"And he decided that if there was anyone worth telling it all to, then it would be the person who sincerely considered himself to be the latest incarnation of Genghis Khan and and for whom time doesn't exist."

"Watch it", he warned, looking Artyom tenaciously in the eyes, "and don't be funny. I have a limited sense of humour."

"One cartridge - one death. Someone's life removed. A hundred grammes of tea cost five human lives."

An unexpected perspective, in regard to using ammunition as currency.

"where terrible things now lurked in their depths, things which could squeeze the mind of the most reckless of daredevils in a vice of irrational horror."

"Me and you, we really love living! We will crawl through the stinking underground, sleep in an embrace with pigs, eat rats, but we will survive! Right?"

There was a definite lazy middle in this story, but I think we're coming up out of it now.

Elnor: "You asked me to observe. I've been observing."

"Have you considered that as you make your decision about what to do next, you would do better thinking less about setting your past straight and more about the shape you would like your future to take."

"every time I needed him to do something, he was down in the gym working out on the machines. Or off getting his rectum reamed by some adoring guy"

"So I did love a woman, but as an actual lesbian I was not a great success."

"I can't be a gentleman. I'm five women and five men working together."

"His eyes took in her enormous milkshake."

"Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust."

"I was surprised that they served heroin fixes at the bar. The waiter said that you get a compensating shot to keep you from getting addicted to it. I got really stoned and tried one. Never again."

"Maybe they'll eventually make us obsolete, and we can go home."

"what the hell, you might as well know, all of you have a post-hypnotic suggestion that I will trigger by a phrase, just before the battle. It will make your job easier."

"...some ten klicks from where we had killed the aliens. But they weren't aliens, I had to remind myself, we were."

"One man was trying to scrape up the unrecognizable mess that had been Maejima. I could hear him sobbing and retching. They had already taken Garcia and Friedman outside for burial."

"They had spent all that money on us just to kill us in training?"

I lost the thread after the 5000 year jump. I've restarted this section at least a half dozen times but ended up deciding to push on. I really like where it has gone I just don't feel like I'm following as well as I was before the jump.

“I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I’d rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.”

"they simply were not cut out psychologically for the idea that they were going to spend the rest of their lives in crowded indoor spaces."

"Until a few months ago they’d been referred to as Arkers, ...Then someone had coined the term Arkies"

It's Trekkers v Trekkies all over again! Haha

"Disasters could be sexy. He’d had some of the best sex of his life while on the road to attend loved ones’ funerals."

What a peculiar thing to say!

"The last she’d heard, the Pope was Urban X, and he was dead. The announcement of Pius XVI’s appointment must have gotten lost."

"Nobody would be getting old if this didn’t work. Eva told herself not to be morbid, but as usual, she didn’t listen."