Reassigned to Antarctica/Quotes

"Count: "Other than that, how was Kyril Island, Lt. Vorkosigan? You didn't vid home much, your mother noticed." Miles: "I was busy. Lessee. The climate was ferocious, the terrain lethal, a third of the population including my own superior was dead drunk most of the time. The average IQ equaled the mean temperature in degrees cee, there wasn't a woman for five hundred kilometers in every direction, and the base commander was a homicidal psychotic. Other then that, it was lovely." Count: "Doesn't sound like it's changed in the smallest detail in twenty-five years.""

- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

"The people of a territory can petition the Darrian Council to remove their knight if he does not do a good enough job representing them. Such a petition must be granted after which the knight is usually transferred to a territory with few or no people, where he "can't do any harm". This is considered a great disgrace and effectively ruins the knight's further career in government."

- GURPS Traveller Humaniti

""There's a ship leaving for Eastwatch by the sea tonight. From there I'm afraid its a rather long walk to Castle Black. I hope you enjoy the Wall. I found it surprisingly beautiful, in a brutal, horribly uncomfortable sort of way.""

- Tyrion Lannister, to Janos Slynt, former Commander of the Goldcloaks, Game of Thrones.