You look old, Fred. I feel old. But it's better than the alternative. - James S. A. Corey

“Is that you?” Holden asked in what he was pretty sure was the new universal winner for stupid questions.

It was just easier. She understood now why adults lied to children. It wasn’t love. It was exhaustion.

The proportions, the black hair, the dark eyes, everything was the same. Only, giant. It short-circuited his neural wiring. The lizard living at the back of his brain kept jumping back and forth between Mate with it! and Flee from it!