Looking For a Good Book

Why quotes?  Check what I had to say the first time I posted quotes.  Please feel free to post you favorite, or most recently encountered, quotes.

“They were futuring here, and the future was a process, not a destination.”
     The Caryatids Bruce Sterling

“It wasn’t nearly as much fun scoring off someone too stupid to appreciate your wit.”
     Sleipnir Linda Evans

“Some writers write to escape reality. Others write to understand it.  But the best writers write in order to take possession of reality, and so transform it.”
     Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link

“The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them.”
     A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

“‘They don’t hate us…they’re afraid of us.’
“‘Then why do they act like they hate us?’
“‘Because that’s what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go.’”
     Gods of Risk: An Expanse Novella James S.A. Corey

“You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.”
     Gods of Risk: An Expanse Novella James S.A. Corey

“Is this what it’s like being old, when your world shrinks and things close at hand take on more and more importance?”
     Dead Brilliant Christopher Ward

“Funny thing, being a writer, you’re always looking up some kind of obscure crap for some reason.”
     Rotten at the Heart Bartholomew Daniels

“On matters of religion, I am convinced that any attempt to reduce to human custom and practice the will of a God infinitely exceeding the capacity of our understanding is folly.”
     Rotten at the Heart Bartholomew Daniels

“Every fire is the same size when it starts.”
     Shaman Kim Stanley Robinson