“Context is to data what water is to a dolphin”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“... The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
“...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
Dan Simmons
Born place: in Peoria, Illinois, The United States
Born date April 4, 1948
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“I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair and wondering if the boy I can't have-and refuse to let myself want-thinks I'm pretty.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Sky Fall
“Her eyes scanned the dark skies. "Did it rain? Why are you all wet?"
"A nighttime bath."
"Fully dressed?"
"I'm modest.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, quote from The Runaway King
“Wealth means nothing if you believe such a life affords you the right to pity, Caitie. It affords us great responsibility.”
― Melissa Petreshock, quote from Fire of Stars and Dragons
“When he thought about her, he remembered her at the cottage, her eyes fiery, daring to love him. But standing here in front of him , she looked defeated and sad.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from You Against Me
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.
Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Season of Mists
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