Adie K

“A coincidence was like a matador’s red cape; if you spotted one, your instinct told you to do more than stand there and paw at the ground in frustration.”
― Robert Littell, The Company

“It was a small world—by one estimate, there were fewer than fifty active fans—that magnified certain personality traits. The most devoted members were usually young, obsessive, and confrontational. Disputes between clubs were driven by personal grudges, and a lone player like Wollheim could exert a disproportionate influence. The dynamics were much like those of modern online communities, except considerably slower, and a pattern was established in which a club would be founded, persist for a while, and then implode, either because of internal tensions or because Wollheim came in and dissolved it.”
― Alec Nevala-Lee, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

“Oh no,” Ximenyr said, looking almost serious. “One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“If you want to keep a big secret, disguise it as a boring and inconsequential secret rather then try to convince people it is not a secret at all.”
― Robert Littell, The Company