Doctor Impossible—evil genius, diabolical scientist, wannabe world dominator—languishes in a federal detention facility. He's lost his freedom, his girlfriend, and his hidden island fortress. Over the years he's tried to take over the world in every way imaginable: doomsday devices of all... read more
“I've been tried for crimes on the Moon, in other centuries, other dimensions, and I'll be damned if I won't put my name on them.”Doctor Impossible
Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone’s problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor.Highlighted by 19 Kindle customers
When you can’t bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn’t you anymore; you’ve changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.Highlighted by 16 Kindle customers
If you’re different you always know it, and you can’t fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you’re given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.Highlighted by 14 Kindle customers
There’s a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.Highlighted by 13 Kindle customers
How had I forgotten this? When life gives you lemons you squeeze them, hard. Make invisible ink. Make an acid poison. Fling it in their eyes.Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers
It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.Highlighted by 10 Kindle customers
It doesn’t matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.Highlighted by 10 Kindle customers
There has to be a little bit of crime in any theory, or it’s not truly good science. You have to break the rules to get anything real done. That’s just one of the many things they don’t teach you at Harvard.Highlighted by 9 Kindle customers
I was exhausted and broke, young and evil and superintelligent, somewhere in America.Highlighted by 8 Kindle customers
Life gave him lemons, and he brewed his own brand of dimension-traveling, world-conquering lemonade.Highlighted by 8 Kindle customers
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