The Zenith Angle Quotes

“To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Zenith Angle: A Novel

“There was something inhuman about being dutiful workaholics, something that wrecked marriages, shattered families, and made a man and woman shrivel up inside. It was going to kill them both someday. Without his wife and his child, hinges had popped loose in Van’s soul. He could feel that something quiet but vital to his humanity was slowly going down the shredder.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Zenith Angle: A Novel

“He loved Dottie, but he and Dottie always got along best by e-mail. E-mail was how he had first asked her out. E-mail was how they carried out their professional lives and coordinated their schedules. They often sent each other e-mail over the breakfast table when they were living inside the same house. They’d decided to have a child by e-mail. They’d been talking over e-mail about having another one.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Zenith Angle: A Novel