Mr_noyes

“Crystal owed the two of us so many apologies, but I’d spent enough years imagining extracting those from my father to know that wringing someone else out didn’t make you any fuller.”
― Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

“That’s the thing about autocracy. It looks pretty decent while it still looks pretty decent. Survivable, anyway. And it keeps looking like that right up until it doesn’t. That’s how you find out it’s too late.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“Two men, each convinced of their exceptionalism, were capable of leapfrogging over vast chasms of maybe-this-isn’t-a-great-idea and this-is-totally-illegal.”
― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

“The nicest totalitarian government ever, I’m sure.”
“By the time we figure out all the ways it isn’t,” Holden said, “it will be too late to do anything about it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising