Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.