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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b940a44 | 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 Vidaura, pacing the seminar room, lost in lecture mode. But the fact that a sextant will let you navigate accurately across an ocean does not mean that the sun and stars do rotate.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6d53700 | Half the things we dig up, we have no idea what they are, and we still sell them as fucking coffee-table trinkets. Right now, someone back on Latimer has probably got the encoded secret of a faster-than-light drive mounted on their fucking living room wall." She paused. "And it's probably upside down." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 3dae9bf | But then that's humans for you--never can trust the stroppy fuckers to live up to the stereotypes you assign. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 67d5907 | Real monsters will always disappoint. The unseen threat, the rumour, is a far greater power. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ee1f610 | Anyway, it's a crock of shit. Simple-minded post-quranic desert Islam propaganda. No one in the modern Muslim world with two brain cells to rub together believes that shit any more. And who wants a fucking virgin anyway? You got to teach them every fucking thing. Like having sex with a fucking shop mannequin with its motion circuits shot up. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4b98497 | It is not our enemies that defeat us. It is our fear. Do not be afraid of the monsters, Miss Elizabeth. Make them afraid of you. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b7b3d0a | Like all lotteries, it was an attempt to distract and dilute labor force discontent with irrational hope. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4932614 | They killed us twenty thousand years ago with their crops and their craven connivance at hierarchy. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 26c8a6f | Served up through the id-feeding Technicolor TV drip that passed for national news coverage, he was just new dosage in a regime already 150 years screen-ingrained. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 421e2a1 | Residual biosystems glitches, they said, and told me it'd fade with time. I believed them, because in the end almost everything does. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4aa69cf | Which part of get the fuck out didn't you understand, hard man?" I got the fuck out." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6035836 | She said, I have no excuses, least of all for God. Like all tyrants, he is not worthy of the spit you would waste on negotiations. The deal we have is infinitely simpler--I don't call him to account, and he extends me the same courtesy. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| d2d4f5f | Tell me something, Gradual--back in Hellas, do they categorize the triads as organized crime?" I paused to let the insult sink in. "Because over here in the Gash, if someone inside the familias andinas was this fucking disorganized, they'd last about ten minutes." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 3c23fc0 | They exploit, and deal, and shift ground constantly, but for all that, you can get used to them. You can get used to their gleaming company towers and their nanocopter security, their cartels and their HOGs, their stretched-over-centuries unhuman patience and their assumed inheritance of godfather status for the human race. You can get so you're grateful for the there-but-for-the-grace-of-God relief of whatever little flange of existence th.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 186bba8 | Look at that, Kovacs. We're drinking coffee so far from Earth you have to work hard to pick out Sol in the night sky. We were carried here on a wind that blows in a dimension we cannot see or touch. Stored as dreams in the mind of a machine that thinks in a fashion so far in advance of our own brains, it might as well carry the name of God. We have been resurrected into bodies not our own, grown in a secret garden without the body of any mo.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 9a9a31b | we're all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad. You want soy sauce on that? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 281a39a | I nodded. "Good luck." "What?" "I thought one of us should say it. Didn't look like it was going to be you." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 7fd65bc | I felt a cold circle of metal touch the base of my skull. "That's exactly what you think it is," a calm voice said. "Yo do the wrong thing, and the cops are going to be picking bits of your cortical stack out of that wall for weeks." | duress | Richard K. Morgan | |
| c27e0b0 | The strain on her face was still there, like weathered rocks under a thin mantle of snow. | simile | Richard K. Morgan | |
| 937cb22 | I don't think I really believe in paradise, Carl. You want to know the truth, I don't think any of us do really. Deep down, down where it counts, I think we all know it's a crock of shit. That's why we're all so fucking determined to spread the good news, to shove it down other people's throats. Because if we can't make other people believe it, how are we going to stamp out the doubt in ourselves. And it's cold, that doubt. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a6f6c24 | She and Torres have history all over the place. Stuck together in the data like tissues on a lap dance cabin floor. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c9242ec | Now." The monosyllable had all the give of a depleted uranium slug. "You had better come and see us now." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| eed604c | There was finely toned muscle in her legs, and a substantial biceps stood out when she lifted her arms. Exuberant breasts strained the fabric of the leotard. I wondered if the body was hers. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| fe6273f | Having someone else in the house, a large, clever, overbearing yet indifferent presence, mitigates loneliness not at all. | Barbara Vine | ||
| 637cc8c | But that's ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!' 'If that's Chepstow he is a lord,' objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. 'He's entitled, you might say. | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| 99c5ea2 | The best saints swear fluently. | saints swearing | Barbara Cleverly | |
| ce7a497 | All women become like their mothers. | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| 57c029b | Money closes more than mouths, it closes | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| 18fb3fe | What a country, America. A lunatic asylum, without enough attendants or tranquilizers. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| c108d4c | Give me smart, young, and angry and I'll move the world. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 61ec30a | yourself." "Maybe we should analyze it. Maybe a little discovery is in order." "Maybe a little getting under the covers is in order. Baby?" "Yes?" "Are you going to take off your overcoat? Feels like making it with a flasher." "Good point. Jesus, Pep," he sighed soulfully. "Keep taking off the coat. That's it. Now how about the jacket? There you go. . . ." "Six months ago I was happily married." Pepper rolled her eyes. "Married, okay. Happi.. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 09783ad | Come on, Terry. Forgotten what it's like to be young and angry?" Terry shrugged. "I'm middle-aged and angry. With good Scotch, I can deal with the anger." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| e76b0f3 | So we've gone from 'Don't trust anyone over thirty' to 'Don't drink any Scotch under thirty'? Is this what's become of your revolution? | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 9082341 | No one likes lawyers until you need one, at which point they assume the raiment of knights. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 8a7951b | But why would I give my watch, my precious watch and fob, to a--Russian who-re?" "Two Russian who-res. Perhaps to avoid being beaten to death by two very large Russian pimps." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 71affb6 | The corporal's morale is excellent verging on sublime, sir. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 0a918e2 | The corporal also reads glossy magazines," Cass said. "When not composing Shakespearean-quality media advisories pertaining to our mission here. Sir." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| c3261ac | Oderint dum metuant." "You're going to have to translate that for me. I didn't go to Gratin." "It's Groton. Means 'Let them hate, so long as they fear.' Cato." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 03ff5cf | The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to know who Christopher Marlowe was. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 772e09d | The corporal was not having sex with the congressman in a minefield. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 3932f60 | Chi conquista un migliaio dei soliti cuori ha diritto a qualche fama, ma chi sa rimaner assoluto padrone del cuore di una civetta e veramente un eroe. | Washington Irving | ||
| bdf2c30 | spectre, through | Washington Irving | ||
| fba75e2 | phantasms that | Washington Irving | ||
| 0e7f531 | The story-high house of hewn logs is clean and neat, with many rooms," he wrote, "so that one can be alone if one wishes to." The central room featured a massive stone hearth with trophy heads gazing down from the walls and buffalo robes covering the couches. His own chamber held a rubber tub for bathing and rough shelves for his favorite books--"Parkman and Irving and Hawthorne and Cooper and Lowell"--along with a growing assortment of vol.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin |