"How could you comprehend things whose existence you doubt?"

"They were old enough to know such things were forbidden, yet young enough still to find the forbidden irresistible ra…"

"Heartlessness wasn’t the sole province of the rich."

"Freedom felt like… nothing. Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of …"

"First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren’t I dead?"

"The fallacy of your personal bias is inherent in your choice of words."

"“Absence of proof,” said Bell, “is not proof of absence.”"

"“Sergeant,” she said as they mounted the stairs leading to her old apartments, “thank you for treating me like a huma…"

"He’d expected torture. He hadn’t expected surgery."

"And, as was so often the case, the history taught to children was oversimplified, watered down, and ofttimes counterf…"