Annabel

“ 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'

Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it.

Wil's eyes stung.

'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.' ”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“ 'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.'

'I have a superior brain?'

'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.' ”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day.”
― Larry Niven, Ringworld