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41 " Dr. Gitsen did genetic typing of some of the Dalasýslans,” Marce said. “Do you know what she found?” “Inbreeding?” “No,” Marce said. “Well, yes. "
― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)
42 " Word is that you’re not all that popular on the committee. The word ‘asshole’ gets attached to you a lot.” “I’m just being me. "
43 " Remind me again why I hired you.” “I honestly don’t know, Lady Nadashe. But inasmuch as you’ve already paid me, in advance, for roughly the next forty years—thank you for that, by the way, my wife loves the new dining room set probably more than she loves me—you might as well keep me. "
44 " He said he wants your wisdom about certain members of the executive committee. He’s apparently finding a few of them difficult to reach a rapport with.” “It’s because he’s an asshole.” “That would have been my guess, too. "
45 " It’s not like the countess doesn’t already know we’re fucking.” Fundapellonan blinked at this. “What?” “I assumed she told you I like to fuck around, so you should get with me to see if I would say anything useful while we banged.” “Is that what you really think is going on here?” Fundapellonan asked. “Isn’t it?” “Well, yes,” Fundapellonan admitted. “But you’re not supposed to think it. "
46 " You believe someone is leveraging all this to work against me.” “You are the emperox, ma’am. Someone is always working against you. It’s in the job description. "
47 " the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get to it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would. "
48 " Kiva considered that she might be developing a thing for Fundapellonan, which on one hand would be a very not-Kiva thing to do, but on the other hand who gave a fuck if it was “not-Kiva,” because she wasn’t some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do. "
49 " basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not actually all that smart, now, is it. "
50 " I have some people here who would very much like to do that to me,” Grayland said. “Overthrow me, I mean.” “I would recommend against it,” Chenevert advised. “Not a great career move?” “It frees up your schedule, which is honestly fantastic. But the people who removed you then usually want to kill you too. And that’s inconvenient. "
51 " It was the ‘he likes someone else and now I’m sad and want to go eat an entire pie’ thing. "
52 " There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem.Excerpt FromThe Consuming FireJohn ScalziThis material may be protected by copyright. "