“Congratulations. And if in the process of this important work you hurt someone?”
“Then, uh, they feel pain? Is that a trick question? Is that really what’s at issue right now, your hurt feelings? Could your perspective be any smaller?”
Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet.
I have basically no patience for this book, but there is one evil-mastermind-revealing-his-plan scene that really lights up. Basically any time he says “uh,” the gloves are about to come off.
Jan 25, 2012