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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2fbb98 | We live in bloodbath times... and looks like tonight is bath night. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 914b946 | The Lady Ishil gestured. "Oh, we asked. It wasn't difficult. Everyone in this pigsty of a town seems to know where you sleep." A delicately curled lip. She let him go. "And with who." Ringil ignored that one. "I'm a hero, Mother. What do you expect?" | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 0d58b1f | Ringil lifted his right hand as if it pained him, put it slowly and wonderingly up to his shoulder and touched the pommel of his sword like, well, like he was caressing someone's prick, to be honest. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a68b5c8 | Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 61b99a3 | Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 05f44b4 | Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 771c971 | Was a time... Sure. And there was another fucking time the summers never seemed to end and you'd never paid for it in your life. Remember that? Time passes, Max - get over it. Skip the fucking nostalgia, let's get where we're at. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 10af389 | Just as a primitive sextant functions on the illusion that the sun and stars rotate around the planet we are standing on, our senses give us the illusion of stability in the universe, and we accept it, because without that acceptance, nothing can be done. Virginia | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a6d0336 | list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 4894a40 | She wanted to do damage, gashed red, bleeding, and screaming damage to all and any of the bland facets of social restraint that meshed her about like spiderweb. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 797a600 | We're more than what we do. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 62d8452 | What you feel is not yours. You need not own it. Creatures like these breed the fear in you as we fatten a buffalo calf, and with similar intent. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b7b922a | Choose your feelings as you would a weapon. This is what it is to be Majak. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 364d456 | Most people don't like to think things through. Too much effort. They'd rather have the edited visceral highlights. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a8de511 | Like the Sharyan resistance in general, they weren't overly imaginative--which in the end proved their downfall when faced with the Envoys--but they weren't any kind of pushover, either. We'd all developed a healthy respect for their courage and combat endurance by the time we slaughtered the last of them. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 91e758b | Religion's just politics with higher stakes, Tak. You know that, you saw it in action on Sharya. No reason these people can't do the same when it comes to the crunch. These people are sheep. They'll do whatever their holy men tell them. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 79742b0 | Two hundred and fifty years is a long time ... Do you have any concept of what happens to emotional bonds over such a period? .... No. Your life experience cannot possibly encompass what it is to love the same person for two hundred and fifty years. In the end, if you endure, if you beat the traps of boredom and complacency, in the end what you are left with is not love. It is almost veneration. How then to match that respect, that venerati.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| bd0c513 | You know God does not manifest Himself," Halgan shouted. "That is also heresy. The Revelation is not corporeal. You know this. Why do you persist in this perverted speech?" "I like perverted. Maybe you would, too, if you gave it a chance." "Leave my men alone," Rakan said coldly. "Degenerate." Ringil smooched a kiss at him." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a8d71e8 | His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f7dd768 | from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4256561 | Common men make a distinction between gods and demons, Poltar, but it's ignorance to talk that way. When the powers do our will, we worship them as gods; when they thwart and frustrate us, we hate and fear them as demons. They are the same creatures, the same twisted unhuman things. The shaman's path is negotiation, nothing more. We tend the relationship with the powers so they bring us more benefit than ruin. We can do no more. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a4d1b97 | When they ask how I died," I said. "Tell them: Still Angry." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 9d2a65d | If I know anything about stack engineers, they'll weld down the lid on your remote stack faster than politicians leaving a war zone. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c8ccd48 | A Man Down Is Not a Man Dead. Leave No Stack Behind. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b2eee23 | I thought that was what religion was. Simplification for the hard of thinking. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6b8ca50 | That's your solution?' asked Wardani in a small, cold voice. 'Take drugs and watch it all slide out of view?' 'Do you have a better idea?' She turned away. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 383b7ed | According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b540118 | Your helmet is red hot," Ringil told him. And watched as the man screamed, dropped his ax and grabbed his helm with both hands, screamed again as his fingers touched the metal and melted from the heat, went to his knees still screaming. The skirmish ranger spasmed to the cobbles and thrashed and rolled and arched in agony, scream on scream on scream, until it was done, and finally lay there twitching, eyes poached white in their sockets. Fa.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 34f884d | The human eye is a wonderful device," I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. "With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| dc6bc32 | On Harlan's World, you don't see many mandroids. They're expensive to build, compared to a synthetic or even a clone, and most jobs that require a human form are better done by those organic alternatives. The truth is that a robot human is a pointless collision of two disparate functions: artificial intelligence, which really works better strung out on a mainframe, and hard-wearing, hazard-proof bodywork, which most cyberengineering firms d.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 574efa0 | The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there's a strange comfort to the way it hurts. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 1602c3c | So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 0c59910 | Fortified with self-loathing, with the reserves of sardonic contempt he'd absorbed in his time spent around Milacar, he'd gone to the gate tight-lipped and filled with a strange, queasy energy, as if walking to his own execution as well as Jelim's. He'd known at some deep, cold level that he would cope. He was wrong. Utterly. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 1aeea48 | No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4b95485 | Angels and demons, heaven and hell, god, morality, law and language. Sutherland's right, it's all metaphor. Scaffolding to handle the areas where base reality won't cut it for you guys, where it's too cold for humans to live without something made up. We codify our hopes and fears and wants, and then build whole societies on the code. And then forget it ever was code and treat it like fact. Act like the universe gives a shit about it. Go to.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c3f6c09 | I am home, you soggy-faced, entitled little prick, he barely stopped himself saying. You think it took northern sorcery to make me the way I am now? You think it took a war? Those things were tonic compared to what came before. Desperation and deception were waiting for me at the nursery door, took me by either hand as I walked out into my youth, have been my constant companions since. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5c85079 | I said--do you want to kill a fucking dragon?" More yells, and more punch behind them this time. Egar eased up out of his crouch and filled his lungs. "I can't hear you! Do you--or do you not--want to kill--a motherfucking dragon?" | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 820eaad | but fuck it, you've got to make a stand somewhere. And a man can stave off his own death wish for only so long. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| eb00d05 | People envy me, people hate me. It is the price of success.' This was news to me. People hate me on a dozen different worlds and I've never considered myself a successful man. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 72dc3bf | I was young and stupid," I said simply. "I was used. I killed for people like you because I knew no better. Then I learned better. What happened at Innenin taught me better. Now I don't kill for anyone but myself, and every time that I take a life, I know the value of it." "The value of it. The value of a human life." Kawahara shook her head like a teacher with an exasperating student. "You are still young and stupid. Human life has no valu.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| cca05d3 | The only problem they had ... was in drawing the fine differences between war-mass murder of people wearing a uniform not your own; justifiable loss-mass murder of your own troops, but with substantial gains; and criminal negligence-mass murder of your own troops, without appreciable benefit. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 686dd4e | Shopping is physical interaction, exercise of decision-making capacity, sating of the desire to acquire, and an impulse to more acquisition, a scouting urge. It's so basically fucking human when you think about it. You've got to learn to love it, | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5807d83 | Kovacs, I hate these goddamn freaks. They've been grinding us down for the best part of two and a half thousand years. They've been responsible for more misery than any other organisation in history. You know they won't even let their adherents practise birth control, for Christ's sake, and they've stood against every significant medical advance of the last five centuries. Practically the only thing you can say in their favour is that this .. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 832c4fa | It's not an easy thing to put a gun to your own head, even if you do want to die. To do it when you want to live must take the will of a demon. | Richard K. Morgan |