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“People who read sometimes make the mistake of thinking that whatever is lost from their lives might be recuperated in the material existence of writers.” (117)

Dad’s Way: A Hilarious ‘90s Sitcom

Fun Run

Mr. Liptrapp’s Sword

Gerald’s Wife

Last Night of the Runaway Adventure

The Institute of Men

The Book Burner

The Vicious Kind

RoboCare™

The Illusionist

"One thing I've learned about men: there's no difference between the ones who say I'm sorry and the ones who don't."

“In the city you can't see the stars, so you forget about them. It makes you think, right? What else is out there that you can't see? What else is all around us, bending light, bending time?"

“She scrolls, on and on and on. She thinks about how we only put up with it because it's wireless. If we could see the cords and tubes running from the machine to our brains, delivering our little doses, administering our little shocks, we'd all start screaming. yanking them loose.

Or maybe we wouldn't.” (72)

“Earth had gotten the best the universe had to offer, in all categories, and the achievement had nearly killed her, and humans had gotten the best that Earth had to give, and that had nearly killed them too. They'd both paid a lot, lost a lot, but they'd gotten a lot, too, which is the best you could say about anything, I suppose.” (211)

“She rode for three days, the holy number, the number of haikus and jokes and pigs, of denials and wisemen and bears, of the faces of certain gods.”

"I know what you're thinking. Sure, it's easy to look askance at people who spent their lives constructing these things instead of saving what we had and making a home we could all exist on in relative peace. But come on, what were the chances that would ever happen?" (37)

“But Adam said that he would make our city better. I thought he meant that he would make it look like him.” (181)

“A great gardener is an artist of eternal murder” (76)

I liked “Late-Empire Confession”…

The lottery was a pretty captivating idea, I liked all the phones being “rectangles”.

"Even the atheists among us make heavens of our futures."

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“Odds are, you either think you deserve your good luck or your bad luck.”