Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

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Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

You have a nice mouth, " he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.