Andrew Brooks

“calm. It was wonderful to watch a woman, faced with a completely drunk son turning up with an even drunker, jet-lagged and raving stranger, just fatalistically accepting it.”
― Dave Hutchinson, Now Wash Your Hands

“Some remnants sob, some scream, some fight you for control. It’s why you always charge your clients for an acclimation period, so you don’t end up with an unpleasant surprise when you first plug in a remnant drive—like the angry dead spewing vitriol at their bewildered relatives. (Clients do not usually pay for the privilege of being reamed out by their late loved ones.)”
― Tia Tashiro, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 206, November 2023

“But my customers Have been most understanding, and we have responded with generosity if they do not overreact. If they find a dead body in the aisle, they're entitled to a 20% discount off 1 item that day.”
― Robert Asprin

“For lo, it was established from the Ages that when-so-ever the bloody 'orse hath gone, even so shall they then and only then locketh the stable door.”
― S.M. Stirling, Ice, Iron and Gold