“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
“She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best. She was not what I needed."
"Because I failed," whispered Alyce in the shadows.
"Because she gave up," continued the midwife. "I need an apprentice who can do what I tell her, take what I give her, who can try and risk and fail and try again and not give up...”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
“Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come.
She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all.”
― Beverly Cleary, quote from Ramona the Pest
“...when he thought of the word mercy, it was the Yiddish word that came to his mind: rachmones, whose root was rechem, the Hebrew word for womb. Rachmones: a compassion as deep and as undeniable as what a mother felt for her child.”
― Julie Orringer, quote from The Invisible Bridge
“But the suspension of disbelief could only go so far.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.”
― Diane Ackerman, quote from The Zookeeper's Wife
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