Words&Dirt

“In Ravna’s opinion, sex in zero-gee was not the experience some people bragged it up to be; but really sleeping with someone…that was much nicer in free fall. An embrace could be light and enduring and effortless.”

––A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge, loc. 5424

“When people say, ‘It can’t go on like this,’ what usually happens is that it does go on like that, more extendedly and more painfully than anyone could possibly imagine; it happens in relationships, in jobs, in entire countries. It goes way, way past the point of bearability. And then things suddenly and abruptly change. I think that’s where we are today.”

––How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say––And What It Really Means, by John Lanchester, pg. 255