I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.