Quotes by Robin Sloan

The internet: always proving that youre not quite as special as you suspected.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean its actually you thats time-shifted?

What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with metal? That part of him really is immortal. It’s as immortal as anything’s going to get.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.

The nature of immortality is a mystery, he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear. But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now were penciling it in for a Friday morning.