Esther

“Senlin could easily tell which porters only became busy at his approach. The hardest workers moved slowly, deliberately, while the lazy appeared eternally fresh and enthusiastic.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“The computer finishes its boot process and brings up a screen I’ve never seen before. I can tell it means trouble, because the word “TROUBLE” is in large type across the top.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Hey, Rocky!” I call out from the lab. “Watch me pull a Taumoeba out of a hat!”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Of course the Eridian language has no words for colors. Why would it? I never thought of colors as a mysterious thing. But if you’ve never heard of them before, I guess they’re pretty weird. We have names for frequency ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum. Then again, my students all have eyes and they were still amazed when I told them “x-rays,” “microwaves,” “Wi-Fi,” and “purple” were all just wavelengths of light.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary