Ada sure writes a lot of words in her books! If only there were indexes for them.


Bridger's, I remember, had many little claws like a crustacean, and was designed to gather bits of debris too small for most cleaner satellites, and sort them into useful sacks to deliver to a host station to be reused, "so the old dead satellites can keep helping. They'd want that."

What are the differences between these intentionally identical archenemies who refuse to move to separate bedrooms after thirty years of constant war?

We will forgive the King of Spain if tonight of all nights he did not have the patience to wait through his full list of titles before entering.

Of the bills Cookie has personally introduced into the Senate, a quarter have touched on set-sets, and her bash' has personally raised thirty-seven children 'adopted' from set-set training bash'es that have broken up.

Custom requires updating the Rumormonger on all gossip, and her patient perspicacity has recognized many a hidden mastermind when one name was involved by 'chance' in too many 'accidents.'

I can't blame Mycroft for refusing to translate this, since it's still technically against the First Law even to read it, but since the whole world knows by now I may as well:

"I won't deny that that's love, but there are lots of kinds of love, like the love one feels for bash'mates, or friends."

Benign means something which can do no harm.

I tried to defend her when, the gown complete, the ladies lingered to keep flirting, but they called me 'bad' and shut me in the bathroom, chiding my 'barking,' and in my office as 'that weird stray dog the Young Master brought home,' I could only let their game play out.

"Masons and Cousins never agree, they're polar opposites."

Kirk! Adamant! Euclid! Svalinn! Joyeuse! Kili! Pix! Mallory! Fermi! Phoenix! Delany! Olivant! Polo! Clarke! Dragon! Shenzhou! Venture! Franken! Tianlong! Hal! Gulliver! Leto! Freeport! Bochica! Hadaly! Elric! Zamyatin! Quasar! Vimana! Galileo! Talaria! Shadow! Earheart! Pluto! Arcadia! Jules! Vinndálf! Kelvin! Sherwood! Mercury! Helicon! Bard! Zuse! Aegis! Wukong! Cabal! Chaucer!

You should be in the Sensayers' Conclave writing weird philosophy, not in the Senate, and not in my gun sights.