“Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“Computers aren’t smart, just fast. Garbage in, garbage out.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“We’re on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you’ve got money.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“It’s not a god he worships, it’s the devil.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security — the fields government used to devote its efforts to — were all slowly being starved of tax money and sold off to private industry. It”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“I’m an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it’s like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn’t read the label on the medicine bottle.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn’t if they knew what that trip’s like.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from The Naked God
“News flash: The whole thing is a huge mess and a giant nightmare and it’s all about to explode in your face and you have no idea what
you’ve gotten yourself into. Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their
possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help.
That’s right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
Believe me, I should know.”
― Jess Rothenberg, quote from The Catastrophic History of You and Me
“That’s my girl,” she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. “Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She’d pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I’ll take the waif in. I promise I’ll bring this one up properly.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Pale Demon
“You got to knock a man down and put your knife at his throat before he'll hear you, like I did to that trooper. The truth seems hateful to most everybody.”
― Thomas Berger, quote from Little Big Man
“For a friend,’ Tyson said, twisting his shirt in his hands. ‘Young Cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learn to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive.’ ‘But that’s so cruel!’ He shook his head earnestly. ‘Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes –”
― Rick Riordan, quote from Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set
“a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.”
― Plato, quote from Complete Works
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