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How did you get here, anyway?" "It's classified." "I'm close enough to stab you with a fork.

There aren't a lot of people who can carry off petty," I said. "Yet somehow you do.

Zoë's tonsils for once." Magdy was

It's a cat," I said. "If Donut wants to spend time with you he'll show up in your room and sit on your important things.

It's time to get you into your crawl space, if you want to be at the negotiations tomorrow without a hangover. He stood up and offered his hand to Lowen. She took it, wobbling only slightly. Whoa, she said. Someone did something to the artificial gravity. Yes, Wilson said. That's it exactly.

No one wants you to apologize," Catherine said. "And you know we all have an interest in politics." "I don't," Wes said. "We all have an interest in politics except for Wes

Thought I'd ask," I said. "It was worth a shot." "Not really

Which one of you tased Dave?" The one directly in front of us asked. "That was me," Niamh said. "That was mean. He's new. Barely above an intern.

Maybe it's just that no one knows how to conduct a real literary feud anymore, online or otherwise.

I felt vibration as my shield began to plow through Coral's upper atmosphere; Asshole rather unhelpfully chimed in that we had begun to experience turbulence.

Too many details and I'm out of my very peculiar little closet (it's a lovely closet; it smells of pine and desperation).

You're insane! Call me HAL and make me sing 'Daisy, Daisy'.

The doors opened. We shuffled out, stepped through the doorway onto the gangplank, and were immediately swarmed by apparently all the small flying insects that ever existed in the history of the universe.

There's actually an exponential relationship that I could show you, but—" "Yeah, yeah, I know, I don't have the math," Ed said.

were technically their security detail. Chen, who was new

I'm not insane, sir," I said. "I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

I'm glad you have Senia, Kiva." "I'm glad too," Kiva said. "Although that was fucking unexpected." "Love often is," Grayland said.

I trust you," Dahl said. "Famous last words," Nick said

It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.

Word is that you're not all that popular on the committee. The word 'asshole' gets attached to you a lot." "I'm just being me.

I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending—if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.

No, no, I'm just fucking with you. They all lived happily ever after. Seriously.

Seems like an irrelevant detail," Schmidt said. "And you call yourself a scientist," Wilson said. "No, I don't," Schmidt said. "Good thing, then," Wilson said.

I had been escorted into a conference room with more brass in it than an eighteenth-century schooner.