“Choose your feelings as you would a weapon. This is what it is to be Majak.”
― The Cold Commands
― The Cold Commands
“like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“They exploit, and deal, and shift ground constantly, but for all that you can get used to them. You can get used to their gleaming company towers and their nanocopter security, their cartels and their HOGs, their stretched-over-centuries unhuman patience and their assumed inheritance of godfather status for the human race. You can get so you're grateful for the there-but-for-the-grace-of-God relief of whatever little flange of existence they afford you on the corporate platform. You can get so it seems eminently preferable to a cold gut-swooping drop into the human chaos waiting below.
You can get so you're grateful.
Got to watch out for that.”
― Broken Angels
You can get so you're grateful.
Got to watch out for that.”
― Broken Angels
“He’s a pretty serious believer.’ ‘Yeah? Funny how it doesn’t get in the way of his commercial life.’ ‘Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know.”
― Broken Angels
― Broken Angels
“Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides,
even those between generations.”
― Woken Furies
even those between generations.”
― Woken Furies
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