Faux

“I would not like a beer. I do not like the way it tastes to me.” “What does it taste like to you?” I asked. “Metaphor is difficult for me, so I apologize if I get this wrong,” Ran said. “All right.” “Beer tastes like ass.” “No, you got it right,” I told Ran.”
― John Scalzi, The Shattering Peace

“Wanted to get inside your heads,” said Pash.

“Did you?”

“Occasionally literally.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my house.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Just telling humans anything has never worked in the entire history of people.”
― John Scalzi, The Shattering Peace