“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
“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.”
“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.”
“Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.”
“«Perhonen is not here anymore,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whispers.”
“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.”
“Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.”
“In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.”
“The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.”
“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”
“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A”
“True stories do not always end,’ Sumanguru”
“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.”
“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”
“There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.”
“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”
“inside her. So different from an”
“For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.”
“Want to come back to the morgue with me after lunch? (Tate)
I shudder at the thought of the pickup line you must have used the night you met LaShonda. Come with me, baby, and see my collection of stiffs. (Simone)”
“There was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game in which the students were exquisite at playing the role of students and the faculty were exquisite at playing the role of faculty. I would get up and say what I had read in books and they'd all write it down and give it back as answers on exams but nothing was happening. I felt as if I were in a sound-proof room. Not enough was happening that mattered — that was real.”
“All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her life. I had moved as far and as fast as I could; now I was back at my beginning.”
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