Miguel

“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 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

“By the time you get good at hiragana, you’ll probably still suck at katakana,”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful

“Don’t follow my mother-in-law’s bad example. And don’t listen to me if you enjoy offending people. If you don’t enjoy offending people, a less rude word for “you” is あなた (anata), where the middle character is な (na) instead of ん (n). But you hardly ever need to be saying that, either. Call people by their names in Japanese whenever possible.”
― Nicholas 'Niko' Walker, Learn Japanese in Bed: Because sometimes studying at a desk sounds just awful