“Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
“Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not… — N'Golo Kante Copy Share Image
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“If the Philistines were early associated with the Minoan civilization, and the Pulasti were an Aegean people, it is to be concluded… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“When we pull back into the castle courtyard, James is waiting. And he does not look happy. Actually he looks like a… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“It was the middle of the afternoon, on a sunny day in early August of 1952, when we pulled into the bus… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“A problem is that Nathan documents Shirley Mason as suffering from a variety of symptoms of a complex dissociative disorder prior to… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“José Arcadio’s companion asked them to leave them alone, and the couple lay down on the ground, close to the bed. The… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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