Mary

“I can’t tell you any more than that, because I wasn’t told any more than that,” Gable replied. “If I knew more, I would tell you. Probably not on the phone. It’s not secure.” “I’ll be sure not to tell you about the Diana astronaut chat group.” “Tell me it’s on an encrypted messaging app.” LeMae said nothing.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“if everything's already fucked, the least we can do is take down as many scumbags as possible on our way into oblivion.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“The most important thing in the universe, it turns out, is a complex of subjective and individual approximations. Of tries and fails. Of ideals, and things we do to try to get close to those ideals. It's who we are when nobody is looking.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Machine

“We are all dying, just at different speeds.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light