When the People march in one direction, it only hurts to ask awkward questions. - Bruce Sterling

The world doesn’t give a shit how noble your motives are—it’ll roll right over you. That’s how it works.

Revolutions. New Orders. For Laura the words had the cobwebby taste of twentieth-century thinking. Visionary mass movements were all over the 1900s, and whenever they broke through, blood followed in buckets.

Clearly, Mother de Gupta dearly loved motherhood – mostly, for the chance that it offered her to boss around small, helpless people.