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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

“Evolution, blind and slow, has not inched along over billions of years with any intention that it should be decipherable to one or any of its billions of children.”
― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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

“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