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

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

“Walter rolled his eyes. “Sack up, kid.” “Amen, Whitman,” Nixon agreed.”
― David Edison, The Waking Engine

“What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.”
― David Edison, The Waking Engine