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“If I irritate the people round me, don’t forget they may irritate me occasionally. Woolly-mindedness does.”
— John Christopher, ‘The Death of Grass’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/19/18160/

“Anaander Mianaai listened to all this, bemused.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Justice’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/18/18131/

“One night a powerful sorcerer knocks on the door of a less-powerful sorcerer. ‘I’m starting an exclusive guild,’ he says. ‘Join me now or I’ll blast you out of your fucking boots right where you stand.’ So naturally the second mage says …
‘You know, I’ve always wanted to join a guild!’
Right. Those two go bother a third sorcerer. ‘Join the guild,’ they say, ‘or fight both of us, two on one, right here and right now.’ Repeat as necessary, until three or four hundred guild members are knocking on the door of the last independent mage around, and everyone who said no is dead.”
— Scott Lynch, ‘The Lies of Locke Lamora’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/16/18074/

“‘How were they weird?’
‘Hoodoos. Thought the matrix was full of mambos ‘n’ shit. Wanna know something, Moll?’
‘What?’
‘They’re right.’”
— William Gibson, ‘Mona Lisa Overdrive’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/15/18057/

“Like a tesseract except for space instead of time.”
— Erin Morgenstern, ‘The Starless Sea’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/15/18032/

“The parasite is not just a punk out having a good time. It is a businessman making money.”
— Neal Stephenson, ‘Snow Crash’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/13/17987/

“‘Yeah, things are shit all over,’ Amos said like they were at a coffee kiosk and chatting about the weather.”
— James S. A. Corey, ‘Nemesis Games’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/12/17948/

“And this fucking protomolecule has exposed us for the petty, small-town bosses we are.”
— James S. A. Corey, ‘Caliban’s War’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/10/17901/

“Milamber’s voice carried to the farthest corner of the stadium as he said, ‘That you have lived as you have lived for centuries is no license for this cruelty.’”
— Raymond E. Feist, ‘Magician: Master’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/05/07/17842/