“Tiny, nonfunctional wings, a dangerous appendix, eyes that can’t see, and silly ear muscles simply don’t make sense if you think that species were specially created.”
Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 64
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“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.”
Source: Along for the Ride

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: I don’t know quite what I mean by my own metaphor, but I have feeling, it may bring in an even greater, faster space of fluid transmission, where no structures, as we used to understand structure, will sustain itself – we will have to come up with new notions of structure where things can change by the moment. I’m talking about physical structures, political structures, I can’t see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don’t think that would be possible.

“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”
Source: The God of Small Things

Adele in Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/adele-opens-up-about-her-inspirations-looks-and-stage-fright-20120210, April 28, 2011.

“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage