“Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“Everything’s senseless until someone makes sense of it. Life doesn’t explain itself.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“There was nothing more infuriating than when a person like Dr. Madsen was right.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“The fact that reality doesn’t match what you want or expect isn’t reality’s fault. Besides, authenticity is overrated. When you were a kid playing… — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“Wollard recited the full formal greeting, as was customary. The younger members of the staff rolled their eyes and looked bored, as was also customary. The full formal greeting was designed long ago, in the days when interstellar travel still involved time distortion and suspended animation. Back then, it was common to greet travelers who didn’t know where they were,… — Scott Meyer Copy Share
“Don’t trust, and never verify.” Roy said, “That doesn’t fill me with confidence.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“You asked Capp to hire me because I remembered one thing you didn’t?” “I thought the team needed a second pair of eyes attached… — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“Our airborne weapons can level buildings and render large areas uninhabitable. Our ground-based weapon systems are designed to repel an air attack. Neither is effective against a small group of unarmed soldiers, unless those soldiers are launched through the air somehow. We weren’t prepared for the Hahn to simply walk over and physically attack us man to man. In a… — Scott Meyer Copy Share
“Lady Jakabitus is a genuinely decent person. Not every Master of Formalities is so lucky. I hope you don’t learn that the hard way when you move on to your own assignment. My point is: the people we deal with have real power. Those kinds of people don’t react well to being told that they can’t do things. If you… — Scott Meyer Copy Share
“One voice at the back said something about her weighing the same as a duck, but nobody was in the mood.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“All activities involve risk; the avoidance of all risk more so than most.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.” — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
