Jennifer

“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don’t you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they’re programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword

“Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.”
― Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields

“We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.”
― Charlie Jane Anders