Matt Barton

“It’s all right,” she said, a sad smile forming on her lips. “I have everything I need.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Wesley reached out across the infinite, and he found— —Enterprise.”
― James Swallow, The Ashes of Tomorrow

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
― Muriel Rukeyser