Maria

“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.”
― Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown

“Behind your reaction is a feeling that whatever is 'true' must be able to be expressed logically. Men, in particular, have a tendency to confuse correct logic with an accurate assessment of a situation. Be careful of any situation that you have to reason through logically, because if you have to work to reason it out, you're probably missing something.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Imager

“It's time to get you into your crawl space, if you want to be at the negotiations tomorrow without a hangover." He stood up and offered his hand to Lowen.
She took it, wobbling only slightly. "Whoa," she said. "Someone did something to the artificial gravity."
"Yes, Wilson said. "That's it exactly.”
― John Scalzi, The Human Division

“Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.”
― John Scalzi, The Human Division