Benjamin Mason

“As if I didn’t know that already. A courtroom isn’t much different. Female lawyers are always on trial in more ways than one. We have to play by different rules.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Smart move, Elvis. Smart move. Just do me a favor. As you walk to your car, keep your hands in plain sight.”
― Tim Tigner, Betrayal

“But inevitably, armed with a complimentary map—no GPS devices are permitted on Farside—you’ll want to explore the city. If you still haven’t gotten your moonlegs you might elect to hire a motorized scooter or to strap on some hydraulic walk-assist devices. You’ll be relieved to discover, in any case, that most of the tourist districts have heavily padded surfaces, and that the windows, should you fall against them, are made of lunar glass—the most unbreakable glass in existence.”
― Anthony O'Neill, The Dark Side

“I’d taken up peoples’ whole lives, Mason –they’d been trying to make it work for that long. And the new generation . . . they didn’t know as much. They had learned what they could but . . . and then came another generation, devolving, understanding less than before.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time