Peter Sabin

“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Jehovah had not simply been testing Abraham, but had communicated in the only language of loyalty, obedience, sacrifice, and command that humankind could understand at that point in the relationship.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“You get worked up about what’s right and wrong, but that shit’s only in your head. Rules are what the big dogs say they are.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife

“They were not overwhelmed with emotion, but simply whelmed,”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora