Quotes by : Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank?....

The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by....

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less.....

Everything’s bad, until you find something worse.

Belief.” He snorted. “I could kiss a thousand crosses. Fucking belief.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional....

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured....

Mahlia… understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn’t trying to change....