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I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant. Ah, repression, Keyes said. Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please. I can't promise...

We don't get to choose our battles.

That's the human brain, Attavio VI said. It creates patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain...

Mom, I remember Lizzie, Hart said. She's really not my type. She has a brother, Wes said, from his lounge. He's not my type, either, Hart said.

Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole, Szilard said. And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought...

Do your people have racists? People who believe they are inherently superior to all other types of intelligent people? We have some, Sorvalh said. They're generally agreed to be idiots.

There's a saying: May you live in interesting times. To begin, it's a curse. Interesting in this case uniformly means Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly...

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Well, that's science fiction television for you, though," Abnett said. "Someone's got to be the red shirt.

I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

Relations were never good {how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast}.

Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the...

Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants, Hanson pointed out.It's science fiction, Weinstein said. The second part of that phrase matters too.But you're making it bad science...

You're an interesting person, Jack. Sullivan said. I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel.Well, I think that's the thing. Holloway said. I think...

Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up to you and only you. It will happen away from the eyes of any audience and from the...

How do you like your peace now, motherfucker?

Which is why Mom, when she's being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the "vet's office." Because that's where Dad brings people to take their balls.

Captain Sophia Coloma looked every inch of what she was, which was the sort of person who was not here to put up with your shit.

This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I have master my life. My rife, without me, is useless. Without my rife, I...

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us. They all clinked glasses to that.

After another few days, I noticed I became annoyed whenever I would actually have to ask Asshole for something. How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out.

Q'eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of I offer you the bread of life, but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into Let us violate...