“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
“Always remember, John, that you and I live on a minor planet attached to a minor star, at the far edge of a minor galaxy. We live here briefly, and when we’re gone, we’re forgotten. And one day the galaxies will be gone, too. The only morality that makes sense is to do something useful with the brief time we’re allotted.”
“Keep your eye on the simple problems. Solve them, and everything else falls into place.”
“Don’t ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.”
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.”
“This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.”
“There’s no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, ’cause the door was verra low.”
“In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.”
“The worm is not to be trusted...”
“Then it's time to stop being the worst," Wymack said. "It's time to fly.”
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