Hey, ” Watney said over the radio, “I've got an idea.”“ Of course you do, ” Lewis said. “What do you got?”“ I could find something sharp in here and poke a hole in the glove of my EVA suit. I could use the escaping air as a thruster and fly my way to you. The source of thrust would be on my arm, so I'd be able to direct it pretty easily.”“ How does he come up with this shit?” Martinez interjected.“ Hmm, ” Lewis said. “Could you get 42 meters per second that way?”“ No idea, ” Watney said.“ I can't see you having any control if you did that, ” Lewis said. “You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control.”“ I admit it's fatally dangerous, ” Watney said. “But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man.”“We'll keep working on ideas, ” Lewis said.“ Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man. Andy Weir
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Jane Austen
What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there." It's a girl, " Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.
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Cassandra Clare
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
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J.r. Ward
I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.
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Jeaniene Frost
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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Charles M. Schulz
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As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.
If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.
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I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.
Log Entry: SOL 118My conversation with NASA about the Water Reclaimer was boring and riddled with technical details. So I'll paraphrase for you: Me: "This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?" N A S A: (After...
