42
" Peter was waiting at the shuttle entrance. “Cut it rather fine, didn’t we?” he said. “Is it eighteen hundred?” asked Theresa. “A minute before,” said Peter. “Then we’re early,” said Theresa. She sailed past him, too, and on into the airlock. Behind her, she could hear Peter saying, “What’s got into her?” and John Paul answering, “Later. "
― Orson Scott Card , Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
45
" Here it is, Bean: Those stones in India? Virlomi started it, of course. Got a message from her: >Now you are not in cesspool, can communicate again. Have no email here. Stones are >mine. Back on bridge soon. War in earnest. Post to me only, this site, pickup name >BridgeGirl password not stepstool. At least I think that’s what “stones are mine” means. And what does “password not stepstool” mean? That the password is “not stepstool”? Or that the password is not “stepstool,” in which case it’s probably not “aardvark,” either, but how does that help? "
― Orson Scott Card , Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)