Peter F. Hamilton · 1273 pages
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“Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Neutronium Alchemist
“Memories do not hurt, they only influence.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Neutronium Alchemist
“Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race’s curses.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Neutronium Alchemist
“we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Neutronium Alchemist
“...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from The Shadow of the Torturer
“She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Birthmarked
“...Charlie still smiled at the urn above the cash register with a gold plaque that said: ASHES OF PROBLEM CUSTOMERS.”
― Ben Sherwood, quote from The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
“Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.”
― Ann Patchett, quote from State of Wonder
“When I was a kid my mom used to tell me that if i have sex before i was married, my... junk would turn black and fall off.”
― Cynthia Hand, quote from Hallowed
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