“The truly smart, having discovered they are cleverer than the people around them, soon learn that the smartest thing of all for them to do is to prevent said people from ever finding this out.”
― The Long Cosmos
― The Long Cosmos
“The mixed woods of Germany were the sort that deserved a good savoring—no, a savouring, with a British u in there for the sake of decadence, as colours are somehow more vibrant to me than mere colors.”
― Hunted
― Hunted
“Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“What the mainstream politicos did not understand about Ronald Reagan was that he was running for a reason—not for money and not for fame (he already had both). He was running to change the country. Even more galling to the professional class that worked hard to polish the rough edges off their candidates for office, Reagan intended to be who he was.”
― A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America
― A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America
“Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.”
― The Emperor's Soul
― The Emperor's Soul
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