“I don’t appreciate the suggestion that I’m acting irrationally,” he said.
“Then don’t act irrationally,” Jane said, “because there will be consequences.”

— John Scalzi , The Last Colony

Source: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 7 (p. 136)

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