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1 " Look to your right... It is the path back home. If you choose, you can take it. It is safe, easy, and comfortable. You do not have to work out or fight or do anything else you do not want to...Or you can keep moving forward. I will not lie to you. I cannot predict what may become of you. It will require a lot of training, hard work, study, and danger. But in the very end, you will know strength. I swear it. You might just become someone who will make a difference in the world. "
― Wesley Chu , The Lives of Tao (Tao, #1)
2 " Since then, he watched the man live his completely stifling life over and over again, one repetitive day at a time. It was so consistent that Roen even complained about the same things at the same times every day. "
3 " You want to change the world? Now is your chance! Go show this bastard what you are made of! "
4 " You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there. "
5 " When someone asked Roen what he did, he'd explain that he typed incoherent commands that performed virtual tasks to create intangible objects. "
6 " The world spins despite me, not because of me," he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies. "
7 " Besides, criminal masterminds are people too. They need groceries and cable like the rest of us. "
8 " Roen said, "I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support. "
9 " Just because I am an alien does not mean I am a Vulcan or some soulless robot. "
10 " Should he plead the insanity defense or the alien-told-me-to-do-it defense? "
11 " I take that back. Saying you fight like a girl is an insult to girls everywhere. "
12 " Reminiscing is when one is thinking about the past. What you are dreaming about never happened. The word for that is fantasizing. "
13 " I had my doubts at first. You were an out-of-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills. Now you are an in-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills. "
14 " This whole alien-in-his-body was starting to sound better and better. First, he got to hang out with a hot girl, and now he was going to be James Bond. "
15 " Explain to me how this is fun: thirty minutes in line, thirty dollars to get in, ten minutes to work your way down here, ten more saying hi to people I can tell you barely know, and now fifteen minutes ordering a beer that costs twice what it should. You just lost an hour of your life. "
16 " What happened to me?" he muttered. "I don't look so good. I go from cute and fat to ugly and skinny. Why can't I just have the best of both worlds? "
17 " I'll always wait for you. However long it takes "
18 " He felt a mixture of fear and excitement, but his main concerns were not dying, making his mentors proud, and not making a fool of himself, in that order of importance. "
19 " She was an athletic female, late twenties, a shade under two meters in height, and about fifty kilos. "
20 " Tao, I think I love her. She’s hot and a geek.” She is so far out of your league that you are not even playing the same sport. "
