Just because that was the start of a thousand sentimental stories didn’t mean that it didn’t actually happen.

You might call them soft, because they’re very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they’re soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be.

Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves

It was clear that the delight being taken...was not the vicarious pleasure of watching people enjoying themselves and identifying with them, but in seeing people being humiliated while others enjoyed themselves at their expense.

[He] just wants [...] forgiveness?""Sma, given all the things Zakalwe’s done, just since we’ve known him, they’d have to invent a personal deity for him alone, to even start forgiving him."Sma turned away to look at the blank screen again. She shook her head and said quietly, "It doesn’t work that way, Skaffen-Amtiskaw."Or any other way, the drone thought to itself, but didn’t say anything.

When in Rome; burn it.

First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned about himself through them - he wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.

Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.