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“evolution had gifted them with a profoundly complex toolkit for taking the world apart to see if there was a crab hiding under it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“She brought the glass over. Bubbles rose in it like false hopes”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep