Computers Quote by Fiona Barton

“As she hung up on her end, she actually fanned herself with her hand, something she’d assumed people only did in TV commercials and…

— J.R. Ward

“I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance.…

— Wally Lamb

“It wasn't like there was an alien hiding under the table, moving crap around for fun.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“[We] stared at each other. It was intensely surreal. Four people in a country kitchen, plotting bloody magic. With a psycho, body-snatching murderer stalking…

— Tessa Gratton

“The alien’s eyes locked onto the young, copper-headed, human female holding a metallic-looking canister in one hand. He hadn’t seen her approach. Am I…

— Mark Wayne McGinnis

“The cashier had long since left for home. By now she was probably bustling by an unmade bed that was waiting in her small…

— Bruno Schulz

“They went around the room telling stories about how they'd gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always a certain…

— Lev Grossman

“People were sitting together, talking and telling stories face-to-face again, instead of staring at a cell phone screens while texting or chatting with someone…

— Mike Foster

“As if she sensed me, her eyes opened and when her green ones found mine, I swear, it felt like someone hit the pause…

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a few seconds…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Christ on crackers, she'd barely gotten over finding out about the others: if she had to start believing aliens were real, too, she was…

— Christine Warren

“Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson