Jason Heller Quotes

#1. I go outside, bundled against the wind from the east. I wander the streets of my past, waiting for one more dawn.

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#2. She glimpsed the sexless mounds between their legs and shuddered. For some reason, she found their lack of genitals uncannily obscene, an indignity, a piece of humanity they had been denied.

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#3. I will dive to find Rosalie. She is out there, floating for me if I can only swim long enough, climbing up through silent silver bubbles up and up and free.

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#4. Their detectors, like everything else about them and their small, shrinking world, were always looking for the wrong weapons, Sem thought as he began to sharpen his pencil.

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#5. Funny how they're corpses if you didn't know them, but bodies if you did.

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#6. The electro-cauterizer sliced through the wires behind my cybernetic eye, and as the world went black, so did a large portion of my memory.

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#7. It wasn't until the first of us began killing ourselves in unusual ways - tearing off our own faces, gnawing off our own limbs - that the government took notice. But they waited until we started killing the oligarchs who created us before they acted. Typical.

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#8. see, when I'm not paying attention to my barriers, I can glimpse other people's thoughts. I catch them like lingering aftertastes or smells they leave in their wake: bitter envy, coppery anger, sour regret, the foul miasma of malice and cruelty.

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#9. And this is the end of Elaine Stainless, it seems. I thought I was helping those I'd harmed before, somehow - that I was making amends. I still think that now, if I'm honest. It's not like there's anything else I can do. Your backstory always gets you in the end.

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#10. God bless this encyclopedic Mr. Google, whoever he was.

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#11. One of the things I like about Cyber World is that it shows cyberpunk has left its heteronormative boy's club roots behind in the dust.

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#12. Her slender hand on the small of his back, night after night - this had saved his life.

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#13. I blinked, and the world exploded with data. Images, scanned documents and photographs, a whirlwind of numbers, under-the-table deals, and whispered words.

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#14. She blew a light and watched a fire start. They would never leave her, now. I have no mouth, the city thought as she went to sleep, but I could kiss you.

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#15. Today we no longer fear technology. It's no longer a question of assimilation. What remains to be seen is what we are about to become.

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#16. You could love someone so strongly, for so long, and still forget - until the memories returned.

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#17. Glittering news chips in men's sideburns and women with braided microfilament glo-strands stepping around me, laughing with silver lipsticks. Kaleidoscope streets: lights and traffic and dust and coal diesel exhaust. Muddy and wet.

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#18. A bullet is naught but a glorified pebble.

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#19. Maybe we should all find one," I say. Or maybe, just for once, I should wait for someone to find me first.

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#20. He kissed the tip of my finger, and I smiled at this. I would not be able to heal him, but he would not hate me for failing. That would be enough for both of us.

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#21. My nerves still spark like ricocheting tracer bullets.

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#22. ...Heard the rushing wind, saw through his tears: red and blue flaring light, and then he shut up and looked for it but found nothing.

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