KtheLostLamprey

“I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons,' she said aloud.

'Of course they don't. How can they? They don't know what it's like being anything else. We'd mind, of course. But then we've been differently conditioned.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The air conditioner hadn’t worked all summer. Naturally, jokes had been made about how this must be a foretaste of hell.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“This was her first time in such a place, and she decided she never wanted to stay anywhere else. Yet in her head, Casey envisioned a meter, like a taxi meter—clicking, clicking, clicking speedily ahead.”
― Min Jin Lee, Free Food for Millionaires

“I dare say you could,' snorted Gimli. ' You are a Wood-elf, anyway, though Elves of any kind are strange folk. Yet you comfort me. Where you go, I will go. But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt. Not for use on trees.' he added hastily, looking up at the tree under which they stood. ' I do not wish to meet that old man at unawares without an argument ready to hand, that is all. Let us go!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings