Dack Powell

“Luo Ji gripped tightly to the match with two fingers as it burnt down. He needed the pain to know that this wasn't a dream. It was like he had ignited the sun, which now shone on a dream world turned reality. Outside, the sun could remain forever hidden by clouds and night, so long as his world had her, and the firelight in it.”
― Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest

“Silence is also a message.
-Ye Wenjie (tv adaptation)”
― Cixin Liu

“No, sir, you don’t. That’s my point. I’ve watched you seduce a lot of women, and I know how you do it. You get fixed on her, you get excited by her. Then you convince yourself that the two of you have some kind of special connection and by the time you believe it, she usually thinks it’s true too. And then you sleep together for a while, and the connection gets a little faded. One or the other of you says something like 'professional' or 'appropriate boundaries' or starts worrying what the crew will think, and the whole thing slides away. Afterwards they still like you. All of them. You do it all so well they don’t even feel like they get to hate you for it."
“That’s not true.”
“It is. And until you figure out that you don’t have to love everyone you bed down with, I’m never going to know whether you love me or just want to bed down. And I won’t sleep with you until you know which it is. The smart money isn’t on love.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“On Ceres, the circle of life was so small you could see the curve.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes