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1 " ...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so close, on a grand cosmic scale. A near-infinite universe, and they were practically next-door neighbors. Looking into his eyes was like looking into ten billion years of history, like she could see the particles and rocks and gasses coalesce over eons, until somehow, impossibly, here they both were. "
― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
2 " I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal. "
3 " Yes, it would look like she was smuggling an ostrich with a tarp on it into a motel room, but this also looked like the type of establishment to not particularly judge for that sort of thing. "
4 " Why, God, why had she listened to “Fergalicious” instead of the news? "
5 " digging through her purse airily as though she’d misplaced a memory. "
6 " Please don’t apologize for the act of experiencing pain. "
― Lindsay Ellis , Truth of the Divine (Noumena, #2)
7 " We all have ways of showing our patriotism, and mine is holding my country to account. I want to dissuade her from her worst, cruellest impulses, for I truly believe that if she does not evolve past them, she will not survive. "
8 " it. I hate that the phrase daddy issues is even in the vernacular. Like abusive failures of parents causing lifelong damage can be dismissed as just ‘daddy issues.’ It isn’t creepy to compare your partners to your parents—your parents are the ones who train you what to expect from relationships. They teach you how love works, and they train you how to expect others to treat you. That’s true for everyone regardless of who your parents are. "
9 " they were born sterile, and even their ancestors didn’t experience sexuality the way humans do, because a human will, of course, fuck anything. "
10 " Having washed the blood off her neck and face, she might have passed for merely a hot mess. "
11 " Eli was a scene kid, the type that was just a little too into Panic! at the Disco to be trusted. "
12 " Which, okay. Fine. At least it wasn’t Nickelback. "
13 " Black olives. The answer to the eternal quandary of what if one were to combine snails and old tires into a foodstuff. The only way the creature could have punished her more brutally was if it had forced celery on her. "
14 " How does one travel to the peanut? "
15 " 1973 "
16 " I hate that the phrase daddy issues is even in the vernacular. Like abusive failures of parents causing lifelong damage can be dismissed as just ‘daddy issues.’ It isn’t creepy to compare your partners to your parents—your parents are the ones who train you what to expect from relationships. They teach you how love works, and they train you how to expect others to treat you. That’s true for everyone regardless of who your parents are. "
17 " The “dead dove, do not eat” of first-contact scenarios. Well, he thought, I don’t know what I expected. "
18 " Are you okay?” he asked. She sat up. Of course she wasn’t okay. What about this was okay? The scaffolding of her entire being was threatening to collapse. “Yeah. "
19 " Like remember in the ’90s how everyone was like, ‘Vote for me, I’ll be tough on crime’?” said Sol. “Well, it’s like that, but now it’s ‘Vote for me, I’ll be tough on aliens.’” If there was any color left in Cora’s face, it was gone now. “But … they don’t even know what they’re dealing with?” Sol snorted. “This is America. When has that ever stopped us? "
20 " It’s easy to assign blame to the American government for the global financial catastrophe we are witnessing unfold, and that is not wrong. Lies on this scale being uncovered were bound to cause mass existential crises, and what better way to exemplify mass existential crises in our neoliberal capitalist dystopia than a series of bank runs? "
