Shea Ashcroft stepped from a carriage into the low-lit alley as a mongrel lifted its door knocker of a head from a garbage pile.
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Tak! quoted In Universes by Emet North
Here is what I remember most about the months I spent searching for dark matter: there are some things in the universe you can only find by looking away from them.
— In Universes by Emet North
Tak! quoted A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
I’d thought the jungles of the eastern Empire to be oppressively hot, but as I sat in the prow of the little canal boat and felt the sweat slip down my brow, I decided the north was, without question, far worse.
— A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
Tak! quoted Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, the sole protector of a collection …
Abe Kalotay died in his front yard in late February, beneath a sky so pale it seemed infected.
Tak! quoted The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
Why do you feed the cats, othala?
Tak! quoted Dual Memory by Sue Burke
I want to feel everything, the light, the noise, the dark, even the cold and fear.
— Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Tak! quoted Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other.
— Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Tak! quoted Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky
The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.
— Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Tak! quoted Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.
— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
Tak! quoted The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui
By all accounts, I should be scared.
Tak! quoted Ghost Station by null
The protesters outside are getting louder.
— Ghost Station by null
Tak! quoted Countess by Suzan Palumbo
Acting Captain Virika Sameroo abandoned her seat and stood ramrod stiff behind the Oestra’s navigator after it jolted through the Invictan region skip gate.
— Countess by Suzan Palumbo
Tak! quoted Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
He didn't like beating people.
Tak! quoted Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
I am not on this beach.
— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
Tak! quoted After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)

Emma Newman: After atlas (2016)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a …
It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.
— After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)