a local pigeon—six compound eyes and bat wings covered with feathery cilia
“What I want is Ceres Station or Earth or Mars. You know what they have in New York? All-night diners with greasy food and crap coffee. I want to live on a world with all-night diners. And racetracks. And instant-delivery Thai food made from something I haven’t already eaten seven times in the last month.”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“It’s about taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they’re the same moments we take into battle with us”
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. Can you understand that? Can you understand that in averting the pitfalls and miseries that beset man, Eternity prevents men from finding their own bitter and better solutions, the real solutions that come from conquering difficulty, not avoiding it?”
― The End of Eternity
― The End of Eternity
“Trashy people puke,” Tilly said. “Ladies are unwell.”
― Abaddon’s Gate
― Abaddon’s Gate
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