Quotes from The Snow Queen

“But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?"

"Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the difference.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no matter how important it seems, really cause a ripple in the greater scheme of things?”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

“Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn’t act, it allows. And that’s what gives it so much power.” He”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen

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