15 quotes
I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn’t take high tech.
Cryoburn (2010)
“Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,” said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
Cryoburn (2010)
Don’t underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.
Cryoburn (2010)
Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith.
Cryoburn (2010)
History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
Cryoburn (2010)
Let me tell you, young man—the dirty little secret of democracy is that just because you get a vote, doesn’t mean you get your choice.
Cryoburn (2010)
Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
Sadly, it wasn’t even a record.
Cryoburn (2010)
While not reliable enough to be put in charge of anything more complicated than a dishwasher, they were very easy to convince that all their troubles were someone else’s fault.
Cryoburn (2010)
All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we’d never have been missed.
Cryoburn (2010)
He didn’t exactly have a plan, yet. More of a stab in the dark. He still wasn’t sure what his blade would connect with…
Cryoburn (2010)
He supposed he shouldn’t think of it as Quick work, my Lord Auditor, from foreplay to coitus in one afternoon. But who was being screwed? And why, why, why was he being bribed?
Cryoburn (2010)
His mystery, it seemed, had just split into two. Mystery mitosis. It seemed a retrograde sort of progress.
Cryoburn (2010)
He’d underestimated how much work normal healthy children would take, even with all the help his money and position could buy. For there were some tasks you didn’t want to delegate, because then you’d be missing the best parts.
Cryoburn (2010)
Yani seemed a time-traveler who had found out the hard way that he did not like his destination any better than his point of departure, failed to notice the one common factor was himself, and now could not go back.
Cryoburn (2010)
“You’re pretty free with that thing.”
“It’s all right. I have a license to stun.”
“I thought that was supposed to be a license to kill.”
Roic grimaced. “That too. But you would not believe all the forms that have to be filled out, afterward.”
Cryoburn (2010)