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21 " When all else fails, science comes up with a label, like “gravity” or “inertia” or “Asperger’s” and calls it a day. "
― Robert Kroese , Mercury Rises (Mercury #2)
22 " The universe is just as absurd for a snail as it is for a human being; the difference is that the snail doesn’t care. "
― Robert Kroese , Schrodinger's Gat
23 " She tried to kill us, Keane.""You can't take attempted murder personally in this business, Fowler. "
― Robert Kroese , The Last Iota (The Big Sheep, #2)
24 " had they gotten hungry partway through their vandalizing? That seemed like a stunning lack of commitment "
― Robert Kroese , Mercury Falls (Mercury #1)
25 " It requires a constant effort to keep people worried about inconsequential issues and unconcerned with important matters. "
― Robert Kroese , Mercury Revolts (Mercury #4)
26 " You can’t rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine. "
27 " The illusion of free will is straining under the weight of determinism. "
28 " For one hour a day, Lucifer took a break from his surveillance to indulge a guilty pleasure: drinking a tall, icy glass of Schweppes ginger ale and watching The O’Reilly Factor. "
― Robert Kroese , Mercury Rests (Mercury #3)
29 " The big questions don't matter if you get all the little ones wrong. "
30 " I’m sure that creating the cosmos was a great deal of work, but it happened before I got here. I didn’t ask for it to be created, I wasn’t consulted on the specifics, and I don’t intend to pay for it. "
― Robert Kroese , Distopia (Land of Dis, #2)
31 " That’s right, folks. This is the sort of novel that starts with a fucking Venn diagram. Buckle up, bitches. "
32 " There’s no consensus in the mental health community on how to maintain the sanity of a person whose whole existence is fictional. "
― Robert Kroese , The Big Sheep (The Big Sheep, #1)
33 " How do we know Stephanie’s not just watering a friend’s plants?”“Oh, she’s watering his plants all right,” said Keane.“Congratulations,” I said. “That’s the worst euphemism for intercourse I’ve ever heard.”“No,” said Keane. “Intercourse is the worst euphemism for intercourse you’ve ever heard. Normal people call it fucking. "
34 " People would rather find their place in a terrible system than try to change the system and risk being cast out.” Wyngalf "
35 " As with most haters of religion, her hatred was more about herself than any particular creed. “In "
36 " I seem to have fallen victim to the illusion, so common on the Mundane Plane, that committing facts to paper will somehow help me make sense of them. "
37 " Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground. "
― Robert Kroese , Disenchanted (Land of Dis, #1)
38 " willy-nilly, "
― Robert Kroese , Mercury Begins (Mercury #0.5)
39 " How could six men have died getting you this map?” I asked. “You just found out Wick was there yesterday.” “Printer malfunction,” said the general. "
― Robert Kroese , Starship Grifters (Rex Nihilo, #1)
40 " lurches forward like a charging rhino, "