Dee Bellman

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“She treated me like a real person. She didn’t see me as just a colour”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

“Y, como no me era ajeno el arte de la guerra, le hablé de cañones, pistolas, balas, pólvoras, espadas, bayonetas, batallas, sitios, retiradas, ataques, minas, contraminas, bombardeos, combates navales, buques hundidos con un millar de hombres, veinte mil muertos de cada parte, gemidos de moribundos, miembros volando por el aire, humo, ruido, confusión, muertes por aplastamiento bajo patas de los caballos, huidas, persecución, victoria, campos cubiertos de cadáveres que sirven de alimento a perros, lobos y aves de rapiña; pillajes, despojos, estupros, incendios y destrucciones.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels