Quotes from Eros Ascending — Mike Resnick
1942–2020 United States
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Corruption is like a disease; it tends to spread to everyone who comes into contact with it.
Eros Ascending (1984)
Harry, I wish you wouldn’t sound so damn sincere. I’m not used to it.
Eros Ascending (1984)
It had been a good line; he had known it the instant he uttered it. The funny part, he thought with a rare feeling of serenity, was that it was also the truth.
Eros Ascending (1984)
Redwine wondered what the going price of a conscience was, but named a figure that seemed to hover just between the top end of Reasonable and the bottom of Ostentatious.
Eros Ascending (1984)
“You make him sound like a spiteful man,” noted Bonhomme.
“No,” said Suma. “Just greedy.”
“Everybody’s greedy,” replied Bonhomme. He just happens to be a little more efficient at it than most of us.”
Eros Ascending (1984)
“You’re sure of that, are you?”
“I’m the best there is, so why shouldn’t I have the best job?”
“Modest, too,” commented Redwine dryly.
“The next modest whore you meet will be the first,” replied Suma.
Eros Ascending (1984)
“I probably shouldn’t admit this to you, but I don’t enjoy sleeping alone since I’ve met you. And I’m certainly not going to seduce your body if I know your mind is still working away on this paranoid fantasy.” She paused. “So the sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can go back to behaving like normal adult human beings.”
Eros Ascending (1984)