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"No, he could not trust them, any of them. But he could hate them. That came easily enough."

"Acting all sanctimonious while spouting bad info was a terrible way to win a debate, but a great way to piss people off."

"Corbin hated people, but he loved his work, and he was damn good at it. In Ashby’s book, that made him extremely valuable. An extremely valuable headache."

"He recreated the incident, imagining a gun in his hand. Would he have fired? He couldn’t say. But imagining the addition of a weapon in that scenario made him feel safer. He no longer felt helplessness. He felt powerful. And that was what scared him."

"On a galactic scale, beauty was a relative concept."

"- All the things I've done to my body, I've done out of love."

”He recreated the incident, imagining a gun in his hand. Would he have fired? He couldn’t say. But imagining the addition of a weapon in that scenario made him feel safer. He no longer felt helplessness. He felt powerful. And that was what scared him.”

”Being weird doesn’t mean that she doesn’t deserve companionship.”