I opened the door for him; he took off like a furry heat-seeking slobber missile.
It was breathtaking the situations that humans put themselves into, and still managed to thrive.
It’s because I remind them they’re not God,” I said. “And that if there is one, I’m closer to Him than they are.
And as luck would have it, a position opened up here.” “It wasn’t luck,” Mbeke said. “It was a Longranian Ice Shark,” Cassaway said.
They didn’t mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn’t the same as not doing harm.
I have drinks,” Hanson said, coming up behind Duvall. “Why, Jimmy,” Duvall said. “That makes you my new favorite person.
When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.
Because this is what I learned about myself that first day: My body is my body. I don’t want anyone else in it. I don’t want someone else controlling it, or trying to. It’s my own little space in the world and the only space I have. And to have someone else in it, doing anything to it, sends me into a panic.
So many people go through life without love. Wanting love. Hoping for love. Hungering for more of it than they have. Missing love when it was gone.
She thought it was pretty much the only way to be in a universe that didn’t care about anyone’s life one way or another, and in a civilization that was designed to keep the rich as rich as possible and the poor from actively starving so they wouldn’t think to rise up and behead the rich.
For all that, the higher Kiva ascended the steps of power, the more she realized that her policy of selfishness had, shall we say, certain limits. Perhaps.
Listen to me or don’t. But if you don’t, you’ll be dead. And then where will you be? Dead, that’s where.
It’s the truth.” “Oh, my daughter,” Huma said, and smiled. “Don’t tell me you don’t know how little that actually means.
This is what happens when the Narrative takes over. Things quit making sense. The laws of physics take a coffee break. People stop thinking logically and start thinking dramatically.
I had been getting sidetracked by the idea that an entire fearsome race of aliens had given themselves goofy names because of the names I had thoughtlessly given two of them more than a decade before;.
But imagine you’re a tapeworm, and then suddenly you’re Goethe. It’s like that.
Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?
There’s no but. You’re right. It’s just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can’t, suffer.
Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.
Maybe after the first dozen times it happened, the Universal Union should have started engineering for space defenestration. NICK.