and much of what she came to understand was that humans were domestic animals like dogs and cats. They responded poorly to threats and well to a gentle building of trust.

To beat a man—even to beat a man to death—was at least proof that you took him seriously as a man.

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

Fish and company start to smell after three days.

War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

Intention is irrelevant. Only outcomes matter.

Intension is irrelevant. Only outcomes matter.