Chris

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“We—we spread out,” he said. “Yes. We spread out. That’s what we do.”
They moved carefully through the bracken. The sergeant crouched behind a handy log, and said, “Right. Very good. You’ve got the general idea. Now let’s spread out again, and this time we spread out separately.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol