“Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon.”
Source: Infected Connection
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.”
Source: Infected Connection
“On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test cards.”
Source: Infected Connection
“Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.
'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.”
Source: Infected Connection
“Fear is quite the anaesthetic”
Source: Infected Connection
“He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...”
Source: Infected Connection
“Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.”
Source: Connected Infection
“Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?”
Source: Connected Infection