Emily Cahill

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy’s king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop’s ear, and suddenly it’s playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you’re fucked.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“It's the love of right lures men to wrong.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars