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"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
"The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." I think Seveneves was one of Stephenson's weaker novels overall, but you can't deny it has a killer opening line.
"I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug." -- Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis
"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know."
record skips "You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation"
the Compiler. Opening this Summer, 2022.
Something along the lines of, “And so it is with you.”
"Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure"* -- Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu. * For a long time, I would go to bed early.
I started reading it in jail, after reading 1Q84 which had a line stating that the only place you'll ever get enough time to read that book is in prison.
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”