“sail passed it. The distance from each bomb to the” Death's End — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

“God is Dipa’s alibi. Why can’t criminals be frank about what they’re up to?” Island — Aldous Huxley

“Alma allows herself the guttural chortle of an ogre who’s just realised where the schoolchildren are hiding.” Jerusalem — Alan Moore

“We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom.” The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett

“There is, in other words, a cost to dopey communication, even if that dopey communication is innocently intended. And the cost of dopey communication is directly proportional to the omnipresence of the message.” The Braindead Megaphone — George Saunders

“and I knew beyond the shadow of a hope that to be female is to be mirror and honeypot, servant and judge, the terrible Rhadamanthus for whom he must perform but whose judgment is not human and whose services are at anyone’s command,” The Female Man — Joanna Russ

“Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.” The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

“woman’s voice delivered a high-performance hello.” White Noise — Don DeLillo

“He grinned back with the front of his face” For Whom The Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway

“The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins

“Education in credulity leads by quick stages to mental decay;” Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell

“You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

“in general people’s lives would be sufficient to explain them going silly.” Jerusalem — Alan Moore

“She wondered if anyone totally understood how banks could make the ground shift underfoot and turn real things into empty air, just with a word.” Flight Behavior — Barbara Kingsolver

“The institutions of Western Christendom embodied a theory which was really believed, as no theory by which our present institutions can be defended is now believed.” Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell

“It is the source of all true art and science.” Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut

““While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut

“In every case, the working class creates by the surplus labour of one year the capital destined to employ additional labour in the following year And this is what is called creating capital out of capital.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

“statistically, kids are better off with a grandma around than a father.” Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body — Sara Pascoe

“but if they did not laugh, it not would not be the teaching of the Tao.” Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu and Robert Brookes

“Simply on the basis of its temporality, digital communication conveys affect more than it transmits feeling. Shitstorms are streams of affect. They represent exemplary phenomena of digital communication.” Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power — Byung-Chul Han and Erik Butler

“This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.” Snow Crash: A Novel — Neal Stephenson

“Shorting civilization and imagining living on in some fortress island of the mind was another fantasy of escape, one of many that rich people entertained, as ridiculous as retreating to Mars.” The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson

““Tell us,” we say in effect, “as much truth as you can, while still making money.” This is not the same as asking: “Tell us the truth.” The Braindead Megaphone — George Saunders

“Kid looked up and let the title of his book embed that part of his consciousness reserved for reality, while he expunged it from the part called dream.” Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson

“As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travel or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like every one else.” The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett

“The rate of surplus-value is therefore an exact expression for the degree of exploitation of labour-power by capital, or of the worker by the capitalist.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

“Abraham in Ethiopia cannot cross the border, but his beans carry the fragrant aromas of coffee down the sparkling Western city streets.” Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith

“In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.” Walden — Henry David Thoreau

“stiff as Medusa's optometrist.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins