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1 " That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it. "
― Marcus Sakey , Brilliance (Brilliance Saga, #1)
2 " Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything. "
3 " Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who "
4 " among them Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who last year became the first gifted member of the US Senate. "
5 " The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are. "
6 " She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove. "
7 " It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken. "
8 " Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to. "
9 " Data. That’s what matters. That’s what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it’s useless. "
10 " No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside "
11 " There was a rumor—a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR—that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn’t know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead. "
12 " No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. "
13 " In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. "
14 " NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs, "
15 " She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. "
16 " Around here, I’m pretty sure ‘us’ means Texans, and ‘them’ means the other seven billion on the planet. "
17 " And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery. "
18 " much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required "
19 " The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger. "
20 " Possible ID, leather jacket.” In his ear, the team confirmed the sighting. On the bench, Luisa set down her salad and put a hand on her purse. Vasquez turned to face the guy, his eyes a question. The man in the leather jacket slipped his hand into his right front pocket. "
