Colum Slevin

“Miller slapped the magazine back into his gun and chambered a round. “I’m guessing there’s a lot more people need to be shot before this is over,” he”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“I didn’t think to mention that if he wanted more women in leadership roles, perhaps we should start by hiring more women. I didn’t note that even if we did hire more women, there were elements of our office culture that women might find uncomfortable. Instead, I told him I would do whatever he needed.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“When artists work well, they connect people to themselves, and they stitch people to one another, through this shared experience of discovering a connection that wasn’t visible before. Have you ever noticed that this looks like this? And with the same delight that we took as children in seeing a face in a cloud, grown-up artists draw the lines between the bigger dots of grown-up life: sex, love, vanity, violence, illness, death.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. —Proverbs 3:31”
― James Ellroy, Perfidia