Orestis

“It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Other people - store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America - other people just rely on plain old competition. Better flip your burgers or debug your subroutines faster than your high school classmate two blocks down the strip is flipping or debugging, because we're in competition with those guys, and people notice these things.

What a fucking rat race that is.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1