Pico's Crush Quotes

“Academics don’t send hyenas or pincushion bombs, they slant peer-review results, or write scathing letters to journals, or start a rumor that you’re trading grades for hot-connects in the storeroom. Violence implies your ideas are too weak to stand on their own.”
― Carol Van Natta, Pico's Crush

“You need more than a wound pack and a pain patch, compadre. I’m flying. Closest minor care, or a real medical center?” He looked down at his leg and sighed. “Medical center. I can feel one of them grating against my bone.” He tilted his chin toward her. “You need diagnostics, too.” “What, this?” She wiped at the blood that was trickling down her neck from her torn ear and wiped her hand on her already bloody top, careful to avoid her inexplicably bruised ribs and keep the weight off her badly bruised right shin. “I’ve had worse than this in faculty curriculum committee meetings. Academia is a cutthroat business.”
― Carol Van Natta, Pico's Crush

“I spent a lot of years proving to my family that I was tough enough to be a gunnin, then smart enough to be a professor in a top university, but the only thing they notice is that I don’t have children.” He”
― Carol Van Natta, Pico's Crush