# Quote — William Gibson, The Peripheral

> "Their stuff’s all seventy years faster than ours,” Flynne said.
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> “Okay,” he said, and she wondered if what she was seeing in his eyes was the Corps’ speed, intensity, violence of action, or his right way of seeing. Because he just got it. Ignored the crazy, went tactically forward.
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> "Just lock everything down, really tight," she said. "We don’t know enough now to make any kind of move at all.”
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> Burton looked at her. “Easy Ice,” he said, and she saw the shiver run through him in the moonlight, the haptic thing.

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [The Peripheral](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/the-peripheral.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/the-peripheral/their-stuffs-all

## More from this book

> “You’re used to telepresence, then,” Lev said.
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> “We call it getting a haircut,” Flynne said, giving him a look as she got to her feet, “back in frontier days.”

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> Conner was in the garden, on hands and knees, snarling at Gordon and Tyenna. They were facing him, side by side, as if ready to spring, their musculature looking even less canine than usual, their stiff tails in particular. Carnivorous kangaroos, in wolf outfits with Cubist stripes.
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> “What’s he doing out there?” Netherton asked.
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> “I don’t know,” said Lev, “but they love it.”
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> Now the two creatures lunged at Conner simultaneously. He fell between them, flailing, wrestling with them. They were making a high-pitched, repetitious coughing sound.

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> “Ash imagines you a conservative,” Lowbeer said, “or a romantic, perhaps. She sees your distaste for the present rooted in the sense of a fall from grace. That some prior order, or perhaps the lack of one, afforded a more authentic existence.”
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> “I simply imagine things were less tedious,” Netherton said.
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> “I personally recall that world, which you can only imagine was preferable to this one,” she said. “Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp."

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