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1 " Hardware can’t argue. "
― C.A. Higgins , Lightless (Lightless, #1)
2 " No one pays attention to the janitor. "
3 " Fury was a dangerous emotion because it was self-indulgent. Fury didn’t want to ensure that it got what it wanted; fury only wanted to rage, and rip, and tear, and make another hurt in proportion to fury’s strength. "
4 " But I feel,” said Ivan, “all the time like I’m clinging to a rotting old pier over a cold sea, and I’m soaked to the skin from the spray and the rain. And it’s all I can do to hang on to the edge of the pier, because—there’s a woman in the water, a woman with dead eyes who’s part of the ocean itself, and she’s got one icy hand around my ankle and she’s trying to drag me down with her into the ocean. "
5 " Ida was a planetary woman. She knew—she had seen it proved in math, in words—that the apparent safety of a planet’s solid ground beneath her feet was based on precisely the same physical laws that described the construction of a spaceship, that there was no real difference between the solidity of dirt beneath her feet and the hollowness of sculpted carbon and iron. She knew this for the fact that it was, but Ida Stays was a planetary woman, and it was with a planetary woman’s fear that she froze in the darkness, because Ida did not believe in God, did not believe in any gods at all, only the cold fact of existence and man’s ability to work within the inflexible laws of nature, but somehow she, so human, so unmechanical, somehow she trusted the engineer that had constructed the planets far more than the human ones who had built the ships that flew between them. "
6 " win. The story of Jason isn’t a heroic quest; it’s a warning about the dangers of ruthless women. "
