January 2012
37 posts
“Her hair was not quite dark enough to be seductively exotic, nor curly enough to...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
“These days she tended to think of herself as a Heisenbergian Christian: she...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
“Whoever the vandals were, they possessed, in addition to a facility with locks,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
“If a leg goes bad, you cut it off.” She made a firm gesture with the flat of her...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Minefold Blog: Hubot Minecraft →
minefold:
At Minefold we love Github so much it hurts sometimes. We’ve talked before about our first employee, Marvin a small robot powered by Github’s Hubot. He hangs out in our chat room and provides us with funny things. But what about when we are playing Minecraft? We’re happy to release
“The room was full of murmured conversation as wealthy customers gambled, drank,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“She nodded. “Absolutely. Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle: Book 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
“It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle: Book 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
“It was almost night when Harry tottered into the kitchen and his grandmother...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“Even though there were only two of them there, she lowered her voice as if the...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“‘So we’re just rat-catchers then?’ ‘Yep. And that’s why we’re so happy when once...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“‘I have heard of Gallows Gap,’ said Rakan with an odd, quiet fervour. ‘And I...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Yes, she liked him. This was better. A better life. She liked him, yes she did,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Snowman by jo nesbo
“‘And how exactly did you come by that murderous little item?’ Ringil reached up...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Well, fame took some unpredictable postures when you fucked him. And he was a...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“To M. John Harrison for Viriconium and its denizens, in all their grubby glory....”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Who told you I’m a hero? The thing in the rags grunts. Nothing but heroes in...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“‘I am Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“The men under your command may well hate you, he’d once written, in a treatise...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“They stand at his back in the cold – he can feel them there now – like new gods....”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“One of the Nine Eternal Gifts from the Kiriath to the Khimran dynasty, the Black...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“The blade came up, caught blinding sunlight along its leading edge for a moment,...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“Torchlight painted him massive and flicker-shadowed behind the blade. He made...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Cold Commands (GollanczF.) by Richard Morgan
“He was white all over – white hat, white boots, white costume and white face –...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Making Money (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
“I just wanted to make money, thought Moist, as he led the trembling Miss Drapes...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Making Money (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
“The pile of passionless frippery had a brooding, alien look, like some sea...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Making Money (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
“Igor joined him. They stood in a silence broken only by the sloshing of...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Making Money (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
“‘This is it, Mrs Cake’s,’ said the cabman, pulling up sharply, ‘an’ that’ll be...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Making Money (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
“Benny Mongrel lay back on the mattress in his shack and stared up at the tin...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mixed Blood: A Thriller by Roger Smith
“Now, like a lot of men washed up in the twenty-first century without an easy...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mixed Blood: A Thriller by Roger Smith
“You just shut up about this, okay?” she said, pointing at the boy. “I’m gonna go...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Mixed Blood: A Thriller by Roger Smith
“Igors, with their obliviousness to pain, wonderful aids to healing and...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Making Money (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
December 2011
27 posts
“Problem is, there’s no ‘fuck off’ in ‘team.’”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Hell and Gone (Charlie Hardie Trilogy 2) by Duane Swierczynski
“The bouncer scrutinised my face. ‘Do I know you?’ he asked. No, I thought, but...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
“Stephanopoulos persuaded an old friend of hers who worked there to pick up...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
“A tangle of young women with regulation-length hair, desert tans and regional...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
“What I needed was a jazz expert so obsessive that the subject had consumed him...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
“Molly glided in from the direction of the kitchens like the winner of the World...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
“Fuck me, I thought. I can do”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
“I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, ‘Who knows...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
“He slammed the window shut, fastened the catches, went back to the sitting room...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Redeemer by jo nesbo
“‘What if it isn’t?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Will we be cast into chaos?’ ‘Do you...”
– Highlighted by Lachlan Hardy in The Redeemer by jo nesbo