AoC

“And explaining them - I now feel myself duty-bound to do it, if only because I am the author of these records, to say nothing of the fact that the unknown is in general the enemy of man, and Homo sapiens is not fully man until his grammar is absolutely rid of question marks, leaving nothing but exclamation points, commas, and periods.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The Guardships don't defend Canon, they exterminate Canon's enemies. There's a difference.”
― Glen Cook, The Dragon Never Sleeps

“Humanity has been accidentally causing global warming for a century. Let’s see what we can do when we really set our minds to it.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Dresden, who was a king as of the old age, swished his tail--just once. Then, deliberately, he turned to face the coming dogs. Every muscle stood out in stark relief. He roared. The sound echoed down the street, bouncing off the neat suburban houses and well-manicured hedges with the force of dynamite. The dogs flowed at him like a tide, bottomless and unstoppable.

Dresden charged them.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char