Dave

“People like arguing about abstractions. Makes them feel clever. Law is the only abstraction that results in profit. So it pays the bills.”
― D.C. McElroy, Chene

“Is that… normal?” “No,” she replied. “Murder is not normal. You can’t go around killing your own people. Not very often, anyway.” “Not very often?” “It happens,” she shrugged. “What nation never deals in death? All states kill. Soldiers fight. If a judge says ‘OK,’ you can kill anybody. But sometimes a sovereign does not wish for her killing to be seen. There are some good reasons. But if that becomes normal, you have a bigger problem.”
― D.C. McElroy, Chene

“New asshole?” she asked. “Yeah.” “It’ll grow closed. Give it time.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“We like to draw straight lines from one event to another, this cause to that effect. But history is the illusion that a series of events tells a single story -- despite the fact that every event is a chaos that exceeds our comprehension.”
― D.C. McElroy, Chene