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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

“Als ich, mit Beths Pistole in der Hand, die Tür zu Mai-Lins Zimmer aufstoße, sehe ich als Erstes einen nackten Roul, der, in meterweise Seil eingewickelt, waagrecht, wie ein Paket verschnürt, von dem Lasthaken in der Decke hängt. Seine Augen sind verbunden, doch er scheint sich in Ekstase zu befinden. Mai-Lin, nur mit kurzer Hose und einem noch kürzeren Top bekleidet, das den unteren Teil ihres Busens nur knapp bedeckt, steht daneben und melkt Rouls bestes Stück mit einer Hand.”
― Richard Schwartz, Die Starfarer-Verschwörung

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings