“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“The hostile force! The reasone the barrier was established. "Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?"
"No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue".”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“The original castle back in Edinburgh was the seat of Scottish nationalism. It symbolized everything to the diehard believers. Despite all the changes and defeats they endured, the castle stood solid at the center of their capital. They waited for generations for the Scottish nation to be properly reborn after their Bonnie Prince was lost. There were times when the cause seemed impossible, or even cursed; they regained their independence from the English only to lose it again right away with the formation of Federal Europe.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
“purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Pandora's Star
Peter F. Hamilton
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“He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he’d been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.”
― Patrick Ness, quote from More Than This
“Ist es nicht absurd, daß einem die Erinnerung an gute zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?”
― Walter Moers, quote from The City of Dreaming Books
“...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
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― Jim Fergus, quote from One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
“«Credo di sì.» Patrick sospirò. «Cioè, credo che sarebbe stato meno orribile se fosse stato un altro. Tu sei così piccola e carina. Non dovresti mozzare le dita alla gente.»
«Oh, ti prego!»”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Blue Moon
“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.”
― Alison Croggon, quote from The Naming
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