“For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost.”
“Everyone’s gotten far too comfortable if you ask me,” she says loudly. “Expecting everything to stay the same when you don’t even fight for it. You’d all be lost with Kelly’s and you know it. I thought I knew the people in this village, I thought I was proud to call them my neighbors. But all I’m seeing is a bunch of people giving up.”
― The Matchmaker
― The Matchmaker
“The more powerful they are, the more they have to lose to their fears.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading”
― Synners
― Synners
“You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out”
― Men Without Women: Stories
― Men Without Women: Stories
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