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“Valueâ€� has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—‘market valueâ€� is a fiction, merely a rough guess at the average personal values, all of which must be quantitively different or trade would be impossible.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“You’ll be angry, but I’m going to ask anyway. Will you marry me?' The unsupported voice, the one that happened when he couldn’t breathe, but had to speak.
I nudged his hands apart to see his face, and found it faintly overcast by tension. 'No,' I said gently,
He blinked again and asked, his voice unaltered, 'May I ask you once a year, every seventh of December, in case the answer changes?'
'Yes. I don’t think it will.'
'Oh. I only ask because I hate the thought of not having breakfast with you for the rest of my life.'
'My dear,' I said. 'Jamie. That’s a different question.'
'Oh. Will you have breakfast with me for the rest of my life?'
'Probably.”
― Steven Brust, Freedom & Necessity

“I’m a decent cook. I’m an outstanding eater.”
― Steven Brust, Dzur

“I just never learn: When you're about to finally get what you've been wanting, and when it's what you need like you've rarely needed anything, turn off your fucking phone.”
― Steven Brust, The Incrementalists