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21 " Creff was visibly agitated by the stranger's appearance at our door. Memory calls to mind the anxious wringing of his hands, resembling two furless pink badgers wrestling for each other's throats... "
― K.W. Jeter
22 " Distruggere qualcosa è il modo migliore d'imparare. "
― K.W. Jeter , Infernal Devices (Infernal Devices, #1)
23 " To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome. "
24 " acknowledgment. "
― K.W. Jeter , Warped (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
25 " I like commas. "
― K.W. Jeter , The Night Man
26 " She felt as if she were being sucked dry by little vampires. End up like one of those pruney leather guys you see scuttling around downtown, she thought. That's part of the price you pay for coming to work in L.A. - The Glass Hammer "
27 " Kom’rk tsad droten troch nyn ures adenn, Dha Werda Verda a’den tratu. "
― K.W. Jeter , Slave Ship (Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars, #2)
28 " Squeaker and the Colonel were aware that death had visited them in their home, she'd come swaggering in on spike heels, and with a big noise had removed one of their number, from the world of the living to that other place where all one's batteries were run down flat and the light behind one's button eyes went out. "
29 " That was McNihil’s own personal theory of how dead knowledge, the knowingness of the dead, worked: they had given up the useless distinctions between themselves and any other thing, so they were open to all the information, raw and unfiltered, in the dead world and the living. A salvageable gum wrapper buried in street muck was as evident to their percept systems as the prick of a knifepoint against their cold skin. It was a characteristic of the dead, to be so well connected, to be wired into everything. Only the living maintained defenses and filters and immune systems, tried to unhook and disconnect themselves from the world; an attempt that was doomed to failure, inasmuch as they would all wind up as ashes or worm food eventually, or at least if they were lucky. But a brave and necessary attempt, regardless. "
― K.W. Jeter , Noir