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“She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“[A]ll that mystical jabber about expecting the unexpected is just so much toffee. Expect the unexpected, Edie was told by a sour veteran sergeant in Burma, and the expected will walk up to you and blow your expectations out through the back of your head. Expect the expected, just don’t forget the rest.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Nothing is ever quite enough. No matter who you are, there’s always something more to be had, which could be yours if only you were someone else.”
― Claire North, Touch

“Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.”
― David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus

“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Getting a rise out of him was like trying to give a handjob to a parking meter: you were going to end up frustrated and exhausted long before a cop came along to haul you away.”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“You may be sure that a question which requires music for an answer can't be put into words. ”
― David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus

“And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.”
― Charles Stross, Saturn's Children

“The Old Testament,” he says. “That's where God lives. In that angry, vengeful world. Christians tried to make him a merciful, forgiving God, but it's a lie. The New Testament is a beautiful quilt thrown over a bed of nails.”
― Roberto Calas, The Scourge

“By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.”
― ruth ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.”
― Steve Erickson

“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions.”
― Mur Lafferty, Six Wakes

“With subjugation comes certainty. Liberty is full of gambles.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“But the truth is poor poetry”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“[S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of the absurdly disproportionate power with which they appeal to the sympathies of the populace.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“The Anthropocene is an 'Entropocene', that is, a period in which entropy is produced on a massive scale, thanks precisely to the fact that what has been liquidated and automated is knowledge, so that in fact it is no longer knowledge at all, but rather a set of closed systems, that is, entropic systems. Knowledge is an open system: it always includes a capacity for disautomatization that produces negentropy.”
― Bernard Stiegler, The Neganthropocene

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky