# Quote — Neal Stephenson, Reamde

> “I notice you’re not referring to him as ‘the little fucker’ anymore,” said Corvallis.
>
> “Okay, okay, he stopped being a little fucker when he raised an army of twelve hundred high-level characters and deployed them in battle array around his projected route of advance,” Richard admitted. “I have to admit I was wondering why he was taking so long to move away from that cave. I didn’t reckon that he was going to set the whole thing up like Sherman’s march to the sea.”
>
> “Did you notice his leapfrogging cavalry screens?”
>
> “Yes, I fucking noticed them.”

- Author: [Neal Stephenson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson.md)
- Book: [Reamde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reamde#Day_18) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/i-notice-youre

## More from this book

> “I’m sorry I touched your doll,” Olivia said. “I had no idea how important Thorakks was to you.”
>
> Silence, as none of the men knew how to cope with her tactical use of the word “doll.”
>
> “Wow, how do you rate having a doll made of your personal character?”
>
> “It’s called an action figure.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/im-sorry-i-touched.md)

> He had found an image of one of the big Western-style business hotels along the waterfront: one of those places where it was possible to be a white person without attracting one’s own personal Stonehenge of cataleptic, openmouthed gapers.

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> “Costello has been after Jones for a long time,” Olivia guessed. “He takes pride in his work, or used to. Jones got the better of him more than once…”
>
> “He is just your type,” Uncle Meng said gently. “Please do try not to fuck him.”
>
> “How come it’s okay for James Bond?”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/costello-has-been.md)