Gary Capell

“Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?"
"Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, CryoBurn

“But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

“Fighting isn’t about knowing how. It’s about deciding to.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves