Don

“She tapped the red dot on the map that was the Tempest. “Anything you can do, I can do better.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“The girl who wore only a pair of shorts said, “It was the university that called down the Darkness on us.” “And the Stars,” said the man who wore just a shirt. “They brought the Stars.” “And this one might bring them back,” said the woman who had spoken before. “Get him out of here! Get him out of here!” Sheerin stared incredulously. He told himself that he should have been able to predict this. It was an all too likely development: pathological suspicion of all scientists, all educated people, an unreasoning phobia that must be raging now like a virus among the survivors of the night of terror.”
― Isaac Asimov, Nightfall

“It had been a pretty good world, he thought. Not perfect, far from it, but good enough. Most people had been reasonably happy, most were prosperous, there was progress being made on all fronts—toward deeper scientific understanding, toward greater economic expansion, toward stronger global cooperation. The concept of war had come to seem quaintly medieval and the age-old religious bigotries were mostly obsolete, or so it had seemed to him. And now it was all gone, in one short span of hours, in a single burst of horrifying Darkness.”
― Isaac Asimov, Nightfall

“Amos smiled an empty, friendly smile that meant he didn’t know or care what the others were talking about but he was willing to let them go on about it for a while.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls