

“O gentlemen, the time of life is short . . . And if we live, we live to tread on kings. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (act 5, scene 2)”
― The Order of Time
― The Order of Time

“I understood pain. It is the price of living, and of loving well,”
― Kushiel's Avatar
― Kushiel's Avatar

“The wording does not come naturally in this bastard language of Sabir, but Moseh’s plan was to synergistically leverage the value-added of diverse core competencies into a virtual entity whose whole was more than the sum of its parts…”
― The Confusion
― The Confusion

“I thought of an old poker players’ expression: If you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, the sucker is you.”
― A Lonely Resurrection
― A Lonely Resurrection

“I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit,” Eliot said. “Though that would explain a lot.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
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