Quotes from The Fractal Prince

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“I’m not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik’s cubes while trying to solve them at the same time. And every time I drop one, God kills a billion kittens.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“True stories do not always end,’ Sumanguru”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“You found the memories. But there was another you who tried to take them. So you trapped him in a prison, and only got out with a box with a god in it. And a memory that said that you needed to go to Earth.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince

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“One day you’ll say to yourself, I’m tired, I’ll sit down, and you’ll go and sit down. Then you’ll say, I’m hungry, I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up. You’ll say, I shouldn’t have sat down, but since I have I’ll sit on a little longer, then I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up and you won’t get anything to eat. [Pause.] You’ll look at the wall a while, then you’ll say, I’ll close my eyes, perhaps have a little sleep, after that I’ll feel better, and you’ll close them. And when you open them again there’ll be no wall any more. [Pause.] Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn’t fill it, and there you’ll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe. [Pause.]”
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