Miguel

“While 目が覚める (me ga sameru) can describe “returning to your senses”. I know that these subtle differences exist because I just googled it in Japanese, and then my Japanese wife Rei, super-editor and language extraordinaire, hasn’t deleted this sentence from the book.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful

“It just means that they’ll load it from backups,” Naomi said, taking the cup. She’d gotten used to Chava’s French press coffee. It was strong and bitter and occasionally carried a bit of the coffee grounds in it. She found she was starting to prefer it to the normal ship-dispensed kind.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“Now that she was close, she could see the bodies spread out in the trays and held down with pins. Dead animals. Dead as Timothy. Dead as her mother. Dead as all the people in the ring space.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“It was normal to sacrifice animals. Rats, pigeons, pigs. Dogs. Chimpanzees. Biology had always suffered the cognitive push-pull of proving that humans were just another kind of animal while at the same time claiming to be morally different in kind. It was okay to kill a chimp in the name of science. It wasn’t okay to kill a person.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath