For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance. - Alastair Reynolds

I'd argue with you, but I suspect it would feel a bit like arguing with myself." "Futile?" "Boring.

She was usually caught with her back to us, a distant figure standing on some cliff or high building with one hand on her hip and another shielding her eyes from the sun, lost in the rapture of scale and scenery, drunk on the very idea of being human, a monkey who had hit the big time.

But you know what? I don’t care If transferring your anger onto me helps you, go ahead. I was the billionaire CEO of a global company. I was doing something wrong if I didn’t wake up with a million knives in my back.