Zhai

“it is not. No, I am not. No, we have been conquered, but we will fight to the last breath because living with someone else’s hand on our necks is intolerable, has always been intolerable, will always be intolerable. Not because of Laconia, not because of the union, not because of any of the authorities through all of history that have made rules and then dared people to break them. Because we’re human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us funny. We will not be controlled for long. Not even by ourselves. Any other plan is a pipe dream.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“But Icelandic stands as virtual confirmation that adult learners screwing things up was a key factor in how English came to be the way it is.”
― John McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

“After a year of treatment, the mice that received M13 had, on average, less than a fourth of the plaques of those in the control group.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes