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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 626fead | There's a general hate in the hearts of men. You went to war, Gil, you should know that better than anyone. It's like the heat of the sun. Men like Kaad are just the focal figures, like lenses to gather the sun's rays on kindling. You can smash a lens, but that won't put out the sun. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ff80281 | No." A look of dawning comprehension. "Ah, that. The regret, is that what you're talking about? This sense of loss? Yes, he always talked about that, too. It's a mortal thing, as far as I can tell. The aspect storm is a warp in the fabric of every possible outcome the universe will allow. It gathers in the alternatives like a bride gathering in her gown. For a mortal, those alternatives are mostly paths they'll never take, things they'll ne.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 87f8f52 | Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have. | humor | Richard K. Morgan | |
| c206943 | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here--it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin... | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 0ba87c0 | If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 0d97470 | Around us, the tourist crowd ebbed and flowed like the multicolored idiot tide it was. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| aad3d90 | He picked one at random, a luridly violent far-future crime novel about a detective who could seemingly exchange bodies at will, but the subject matter was alien to him and his attention drifted. It all seemed very far-fetched. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 91c38fc | spend | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f117e05 | I am Friend to Carrion Crows and Wolves. I am Carry Me and Kill with Me, and Die with Me Where the Road Ends. I am not the Honeyed Promise of Length of Life in Years to Come, I am the Iron Promise of Never Being a Slave. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 2e11533 | 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 shamans 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. And | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 2b9328d | Make it personal. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6d0ecc5 | The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control. | Richard K.Morgan | ||
| 6ba6f12 | That's right, Dragonbane. And brothers always stood together, the buffalo came when they were called, the grass grew taller and greener, and it never fucking rained. Get a grip, old man. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 52b6e96 | Ringil, preparing to hand out some straightforward reassurance, felt mischief sparkle through him instead. It was the call of impending risk, he knew, the itch to action--and a long building irritation with Nyanar that finally flared to life. He put on a breezy grin. "But my lord Nyanar! That's what gives life its savor, is it not? Where would we be if the future were always known?" | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a0b3b60 | Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing. | introspection power | Richard K. Morgan | |
| 99516df | You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan?" "I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk." "Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b880764 | Edna vecher, kogato se biakhme napili, Sara mi kaza: ,,Zhenite sa rasata, Tak. Takava e istinata. M'zhete sa samo mutanti s poveche muskuli i dvoino po-malko nervi. Mashini za boi i chukane". Sobstvenite mi prezhiviavaniia v tela ot drugiia pol podkrepiakha tazi teoriia. Da b'desh zhena be prezhiviavane, nesravnimo s m'zhkoto bitie. Useshchaneto za dopir stavashe mnogo po-pl'tno, osiguriavashe s's sredata vzaimodeistvie, koeto m'zhkata pl't.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 68acf7b | At about the same time I was working out there were no wounds in my chest someone wiped a towel roughly across my face and I could see. I decided to save that pleasure for later and concentrated on getting the contents of the tank out of my nose and throat. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ca6e499 | Voltar dos mortos pode ser dureza. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| caf15d6 | And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 7d1116c | Machines cost money to build. Raw materials cost money to extract. But people?" She made a tiny spitting sound. "You can always get some more people. They reproduce like cancer cells, whether you want them or not. They are abundant," | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ac4ba4e | You can't talk to people like that. Soldiers, corporate execs, politicians. All you can do is kill them, and even that rarely makes things any better. They just leave their shit behind, and someone else to carry on. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 447b8d3 | Too much virtuality will do that to you sometimes. There's this vague feeling of abrasion in the head when you disconnect, a disquieting sense that reality isn't quite sharp enough anymore, a waxing and waning fuzziness that might be what the edge of madness feels like. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 0c199e5 | Already on course for the door, I made no attempt to detour in their direction, and this must have occurred to them only when I was halfway across the hall. Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 022dc12 | I hesitated, pretending to weigh it up. "What's the deal in the bar?" "Ha ha ha." Someone had programmed a laugh into the robot. It sounded like a fat man drowning in syrup." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 957a55c | Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 3bee5a9 | Incessant junk rhythm music thrashed the air as if this was the ventricle of some massive heart on tetrameth. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 695c4af | Nyman's lips tightened to almost anal proportions. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| efd245f | outside. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e7aa7a9 | Something was pushing me, something that had very little to do with the look the Mongol had given me. Something dark that had spread its wings on the low-key misery of the cabin, something uncontrolled that Virginia Vidaura would have bawled me out for. I could hear Jimmy de Soto whispering in my ear. "You waiting for me?" I asked the Mongol's back, and saw how the muscles in it tensed. Maybe one of the dealers felt it coming. He held up hi.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| df1487f | An-Kirilnar is." The Helmsman stopped dead, so abruptly that it took her a moment to realize there were no more words coming. Flicker of shifting light across the optics, there and gone. But this time she saw it for certain. "Angfal?" "Quests are pretexts, Archeth. They are tales told, narrative blankets to wrap you against the cold you cannot bear." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 7127c8f | Something's not right. Without applying rationale as a mediator, select your first impulse. What would it be? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 177e121 | 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 | ||
| 0edafb7 | I remembered the way Reileen Kawahara had dealt with two unfaithful minions. The animal sounds they had made came back to me in dreams for a long time afterwards. Reileen's argument, framed as she peeled an apple against the backdrop of those screams, was that since no one really dies anymore, punishment can come only through suffering. I felt my new face twitch, even now, with the memory. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b380617 | Warden Sullivan, you're not taking this in the spirit it's intended. I am very concerned to know who you sold me to. I'm not going to go away, just because you have some residual scruples about client confidentiality. Believe me, they didn't pay you enough to hold out on me. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c280d19 | The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 3c72c3b | Against the distant roar of the maelstrom I heard it. The hurrying strop of rotor blades on the fabric of the night. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ad553cc | simulacrum | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 39fdea3 | Given enough traces of continuity, you could make a leap that enabled you to see the whole as a kind of premonition of real knowledge. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 35f3268 | A weapon--any weapon--is a tool, she told us. Cradled in her arms was a Sunjet particle gun. Designed for a specific purpose, just as any tool is, and only useful in that purpose. You would think a man a fool to carry a force hammer with him everywhere simply because he is an engineer. And as it is with engineers, so it is doubly with Envoys. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 06b2195 | Space, to use a cliche, is big. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5c93213 | They are what we once dreamed of as gods, mythical agents of destiny, as inescapable as Death, that poor old peasant laborer, bent over his scythe, no longer is. Poor Death, no match for the mighty altered-carbon technologies of data storage and retrieval arrayed against him. Once we lived in terror of his arrival. Now we flirt outrageously with his somber dignity, and beings like these won't even let him in the tradesman's entrance. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 32ea855 | Kultur, kirli hava gibidir. Farkinda olmasaniz dahi etkilenirsiniz. | kültür | Richard K. Morgan | |
| a8fe86a | Perspective.' He nodded and swung an arm out over his property. 'You see that tree. Just beyond the tennis courts.' I could hardly miss it. A gnarled old monster taller than the house, casting shade over an area the size of a tennis court in itself. I nodded. 'That tree is over seven hundred years old. When I bought this property, I hired a design engineer and he wanted to chop it down. He was planning to build the house further up the rise.. | Richard K. Morgan |