Stian

“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“Weird things,” she said. “We’re studying very weird things.” Jiang raised an eyebrow. “How articulate.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“On the fourth day the members of the 8th tried to tell each other jokes they’d found on the Phoenix data net, and mostly failed to make them work; by the time their BrainPals unpacked the context of the joke, it was no longer funny. Only Sarah Pauling seemed to be laughing most of the time, and it was eventually determined she was laughing because she thought it was funny that none of the rest of them could tell a joke. No one else thought that was funny, to which Pauling laughed hard enough to fall off her cot. They all agreed that was funny.”
― John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades