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“It was a real book— onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“The girl had all the initiative of a potato. Unless told exactly what to do she would just stand around staring at the walls. It wasn’t completely her fault. Both her parents had the wit of a boiled cabbage so it had been inevitable that Sallie would be a dullard.”
― Stephen Aryan, The Coward

“The most important word a man can say are, "I will do better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?