If you’re aiming not to creep me the hell out, you need more practice. - James S. A. Corey

'The predictable limits of a conceptual framework,'" Bobbie said. A phrase from her classroom on Olympus Mons. "It's always where to hit the enemy. Whoever they turn out to be. When I learned how to do things like this, we were thinking about Earthers and pirates.
Katria laughed. "When I taught myself how to do this, I was thinking of people like you. Strange how the wheel turns.

He still wasn’t sure whether he believed it was true, even. But right now, it needed to be, and so it was.

Alex worried about that. Jillian was mean as a snake. When he’d told Bobbie that, she’d responded, I just make sure she never runs out of mice. He still didn’t know quite what that meant.