Цитаты из книги автора Peter Watts Behemoth

Of course, the system had been degrading for decades. Centuries, even. Desjardins owed his very job to that vibrant synergism between entropy and human stupidity; without it, damage control wouldn't be the single largest industry on the planet.

These days, mere survival is a portfolio to take pride in.

She's finally learned, for example, not to get involved with the kind of people who beat the crap out of her.

A pity she hasn't yet learned how to get excited about any other kind

Long as we act like it's no big deal they'll just keep pushing it.

"He destroyed Atlantis because he had another deterrent to fall back on.

Props."

"You saw through them?"

"No. They were quite convincing."

Clarke caught a glimpse of muscles bunching in Lubin's left leg, of a sudden sodden pulse of fresh blood coursing down his right.

I mean, I know what a tough hombre you are, but your motor nerves short out just the same as anyone else's. And not to put too fine a point on it, but you're blind."

This one had been cranked to quell riots.

And I, well, I'm the last word in one or two things myself… "