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You smoke?"
"Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot? — Richard K. Morgan

If I know anything about stack engineers, they'll weld down the lid on your remote stack faster than politicians leaving a war zone. — Richard K. Morgan

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience. — Richard K. Morgan

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry. — Richard K. Morgan

There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find. — Richard K. Morgan

I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them. — Richard K. Morgan

Reality is so flexible these days, it's hard to tell who's disconnected from it and who isn't. You might even say it's a pointless distinction. — Richard K. Morgan

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. — Richard K. Morgan

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice. — Richard K. Morgan

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough. — Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. — Richard K. Morgan

I'm Kristin Ortega, Organic Damage Division. Bancroft was my case. — Richard K. Morgan

Running away just makes your arse a bigger target. — Richard K. Morgan

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead. — Richard K. Morgan

We're more than what we do. — Richard K. Morgan

Religion is funny stuff, and it has unpredictable effects on those who use it. — Richard K. Morgan

Two of them drifted over to intercept me with the easy calm of big cats that have been fed recently. — Richard K. Morgan

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. — Richard K. Morgan

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true. — Richard K. Morgan

Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant. — Richard K. Morgan

I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats. There — Richard K. Morgan

The overwhelming impression I got was that if there was a line of least resistance in life, this face had never been along it. — Richard K. Morgan

He storms down in savage joy, to meet all the waiting blades and hate. — Richard K. Morgan

Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have. — Richard K. Morgan

Rumor ran in the slum streets of Trelayne like sewage in the gutters, mingled and colorful in its contents, but mostly shit. — Richard K. Morgan

'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on. — Richard K. Morgan

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet. — Richard K. Morgan

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly. — Richard K. Morgan

Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere. — Richard K. Morgan

What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me. — Richard K. Morgan

When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry. — Richard K. Morgan

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves
and burn your fingers once again. — Richard K. Morgan

It's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with. — Richard K. Morgan

These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies."
"Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic. — Richard K. Morgan

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know. — Richard K. Morgan

There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don't let your ghosts rent room in your head. — Richard K. Morgan

The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterward. — Richard K. Morgan

The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there's a strange comfort to the way it hurts. — Richard K. Morgan

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults. — Richard K. Morgan

There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic. — Richard K. Morgan

There were always the stories, of course, the war legends, but who - other than himself, in Jhesh's tavern, increasingly wearily - still told those? — Richard K. Morgan

Well, fuck them.
Make it personal. — Richard K. Morgan

Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts. — Richard K. Morgan

And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn. — Richard K. Morgan

Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated. — Richard K. Morgan

Most people don't like to think things through. Too much effort. They'd rather have the edited visceral highlights. — Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan

So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it. — Richard K. Morgan

Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest. — Richard K. Morgan

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be? — Richard K. Morgan

The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning ... — Richard K. Morgan

We live in bloodbath times ... and looks like tonight is bath night. — Richard K. Morgan

DISAPPOINTMENT IS A SLOW POISON. — Richard K. Morgan

No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you. — Richard K. Morgan

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly. — Richard K. Morgan

He'd already made her for Kiriath and was backing off like a poet asked to wash dishes. Ringil — Richard K. Morgan

Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing. — Richard K. Morgan

His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's. — Richard K. Morgan

Make it personal. — Richard K. Morgan

You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves. — Richard K. Morgan

The tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth. — Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. — Richard K. Morgan

Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture. — Richard K. Morgan

People are sheep, Ringil raged. Moronic fucking sheep. — Richard K. Morgan

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. — Richard K. Morgan

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. — Richard K. Morgan

I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002. — Richard K. Morgan

They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team. — Richard K. Morgan