10 quotes
Superficial appearances are misleading precisely because, so much of the time, they’re accurate.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
Almost everything in the pop culture lexicon of vampirism is basically fiction—and fiction is the art of telling entertaining lies for money.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
Having a policy based on works of fiction is worse than having no policy at all.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
Pete is clearly mildly perturbed by this, as so he should be: his faith doesn’t have much room for sanguinary magic, unless you count holy communion.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
“But has it occurred to you that there might be a reason for that?”
“I can think of several.” I cross my legs. “Mostly ranging from the inane to the criminally irresponsible.”
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
I promise not to hammer a stake through your heart or set you on fire, as long as you promise not to rip my throat out. Okay? We in the twenty-first century have this marvelous technical innovation; it’s called civilization, and it means we don’t have to make promises like that to everyone we meet because we can usually take it for granted.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
Basically it’s a velociraptor with a fur coat and an outsize sense of entitlement. Right now it has convinced Pete that it is harmless, but I know better: just give them thumbs and in no time at all they’ll have us working in the tuna mines, delivering cans from now until eternity.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)