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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a8c32a6 | she said, a little bitterly, facing him in warm perfumed bathwater one evening, | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 00beac8 | Do I look like a fucking slave to you?" he asked them. 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 | ||
| 732c925 | Forget uniforms or nominal allegiances--if it wears a weapon and scars, it's no safer than the next starving wild dog. Feed and water with care, walk like you're carrying dragon eggs, and never, never get between rival packs. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a2565cc | When a forty-minute swim in the Hendrix's underground pool failed to dispel either the longing for Miriam Bancroft's torrid company or the Merge Nine hangover, I did the only thing I felt equipped for. I ordered painkillers from room service, and went shopping. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 564baba | I feel like a | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 57f9708 | the sweat and bloodstained wood of the cross he died on. He kicks in the frosted-glass door of a coffee franchise off Wall Street and beats seven shades of damnation out of the money changers gathered there. Painted, black-stockinged lady brokers twisting prostrate at his feet, red licked lips parted in horror and abandonment, thighs exposed under short, whorish skirts. Fat, big-nosed men in suits braying and panicking, trying to get away f.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| dbeeb0b | They're brutal, moronic, they have the ethical consciousness of apes and the initiative levels of sheep. But you took the field against the reptiles for them nonetheless. Why?" Ringil" | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 817878b | Knowledge tossed away," she said, shivering a little in the desert chill. "Willful ignorance in the face of something we might have to work to understand." At" | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 3d9102f | The skeins are tangled. Some butterfly shaman up in the north beats his puny fucking wings and the storm gathers before you know it. Chaos gathers, like a bad poet's verse. We run damage control, but the rules of engagement have changed. You think we're any happier about it than you? We've got our balls to the wall here, hero. We're fighting half blind, nothing works, not the way it should, not anymore. Which | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 23e7ed3 | I mean." She wasn't listening to him, didn't look at him. Her hand went on clenching and unclenching, making loose, gentle fists in the air one after the other. "If the Chinese or maybe the Indians had come and just chased us out of the driver's seat, you know I could maybe handle that. Every culture has to give way to something in the end. Someone fresher and sharper always comes along. But we fucking did this to ourselves. We let the gras.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 7a0d658 | 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 | ||
| 2faa210 | 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. QUELLCRIST FALCONER Things I Should Have Learned by Now Volume II There | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 16c23d9 | You wouldn't have to be insane to do these things. You'd just have to have a goal and be determined to attain it. Let's get this straight, early on. What we've seen aboard Horkan's Pride are not the symptoms of insanity; they are only evidence of great force of will. Evidence of planning and execution shorn of any socially imposed limitation. Any mental problems this person was suffering by journey's end are going to be a result of that exe.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 252a8af | Rumor ran in the slum streets of Trelayne like sewage in the gutters, mingled and colorful in its contents, but mostly shit. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6a887b1 | cordite-reeking | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 36d8e8b | Take what is offered, and that must sometimes be enough. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| da19c13 | officious. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 6f9c0f6 | It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. The | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 53cf7b7 | 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. The | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c7658f4 | about the blood; it isn't yours. You put this flesh on a couple of days ago, and you'll be taking it off again soon if you can manage not to get killed first. Don't worry about wounds; check your functionality. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 5185d9f | There were always the stories, of course, the war legends, but who-- other than himself, in Jhesh's tavern, increasingly wearily--still told those? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 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 |