“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
Hannu Rajaniemi
Born place: in Ylivieska, Finland
Born date March 9, 1978
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“A story should have a beginning, a middle and and an end, but not necessarily in that order”
― quote from How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
“Everything you love is illegal, immoral or fattening,’ she”
― Preeti Shenoy, quote from The One You Cannot Have
“Martise had remained silent since first entering his domain, offering no hint of her character. If he refused her, it would alarm the priests even more.
“Martise of Asher.” He smiled when she stiffened. “His Grace has spoken for you during this entire meeting. Have you no words? Or did you suffer as my servant and have your tongue cut out?”
He followed her gaze to Gurn. The servant gave her an encouraging nod. Silhara might have considered her easily intimidated, save for that calm demeanor.
“No, sir, I’m no mute. It is rude to speak out of turn, is it not?”
He stilled at her question. Bursin’s wings, what generous god blessed this woman with such a voice? Refined and sensual, it possessed a silky quality, as if she physically caressed him.
The contrast between her dulcet tones and bland appearance startled him. Before she spoke, Martise had faded into her surroundings, forgotten. Now she shone, riveting the attention of anyone within hearing distance. He glanced at Cumbria who treated him to a smug smile.
He didn’t like being caught off guard and lashed out. “Far be it from me that I compromise the deportment of a lady. I wouldn’t tempt a well-trained dog into forgetting the commands of ‘Fetch’ and ‘Sit’.”
Her jaw tightened. She dropped her gaze, but not before he saw the sparks of anger in her eyes. Not so docile as one might first believe, yet his new apprentice exercised admirable control over her emotions. Behavior of a long-time servant. Cumbria had indeed brought him a spy.”
― Grace Draven, quote from Master of Crows
“A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.”
― Jan Valtin, quote from Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
“...most of us build prisons for ourselves and after we occupy them for a period of time we become accustomed to their walls and accept the false premise that we are incarcerated for life. As soon as that belief takes hold of us we abandon hope of ever doing more with our lives and of ever giving our dreams a chance to be fulfilled. We become puppets and begin to suffer living deaths. It may be praiseworthy and noble to sacrifice your life to a cause or a business or the happiness of others, but if you are miserable and unfulfilled in that lifestyle, and know it, then to remain in it is a hypocrisy, a lie, and a rejection of the faith placed in you by your creator.”
― Og Mandino, quote from The Greatest Miracle in the World
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