Tim Chappell

“cannot abide a harmless, necessary cat.” If they try to pretend, out of politeness or any reason, it shows, because they don’t understand how to treat cats—and cat protocol is more rigid than that of diplomacy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Door into Summer

“The sacred geometry of chance, sir.”
― Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

“that the depth of knowledge required to understand what was and wasn't possible within the confines of the known universe was not within their grasp.”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“Yet, I question now the justice of men and women casting a nation into war when they have not themselves experienced it, or paid its terrible price. I do not long for a military dictatorship—far from it. We are surrounded by brutal regimes where freedom is a forgotten ideal. Yet, it sickens me to think of politicians who have never heard a shot fired making a decision that will send thousands of good men and women to hideous deaths.”
― Jay Allan, Duel in the Dark