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“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“What does a mirror look at?”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders,”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me, and you.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth and master of all.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Long Utopia

“In Australia we had forty thousand years of civilization before the savages landed.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Cosmos

“There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it."
"Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.” At”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.”
― Mira Grant, Countdown

“There was one thing no one considered, however: Australia was populated by Australians. While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a world that suddenly seemed bent on eradicating the human race, the Australians had been dealing with a hostile environment for centuries. They looked upon our zombie apocalypse, and they were not impressed.”
― Mira Grant, How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea

“Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.”
― Mira Grant, How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea

“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods?

A murder of crows, a murder of gods-I like that, lass.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“Oublier les morts, c'était un peu comme les tuer une seconde fois.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Fiancés de l'hiver

“But that was the way time worked. Too fast when you weren't paying attention, and then slow as mud when you watched it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Strange Dogs