Mike Logsdon

“You worried or something, Miles? Seem a little absent-minded tonight.” I smiled and shrugged. “Just taking my work home with me, I guess.” “Mustn’t do that, boy; I never did. Forgot all about the bank the minute I put my hat on at night. ’Course you don’t get to be president that way.” He grinned. “But the president’s dead now, and I’m still alive.”
― Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

“To bring violence into our space in the name of material gain, and at the expense of civilian lives, would be grossly negligent.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“After all we had done, all the horrors we had created, both sides decided that perhaps it was time for us to end. We had squandered our time, and we didn’t feel that we needed—or perhaps deserved—another chance.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“you are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet