Simon Morden > Quotes

“People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don't need anyone else. We're happy doing what we do and having obligation interferes with that. And sometimes I think we don't even need ourselves. What's most important is to find out whether we're right or not.”
― Simon Morden, Equations of Life

“What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.”
― Simon Morden, Theories of Flight

“Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.”
― Simon Morden, The Lost Art

“We are out of munitions, We will have to depend on theoretical physics.
(Spoken in the heat of battle by Sammuil Petrovitch in Theories of Flight”
― Simon Morden

“I get laughed at because I know the value of the gravitational constant, but somehow it’s social suicide not to know who Odysseus’s mother was.” “Anticlea.” “Shut up, Marcus.”
― Simon Morden, The Curve of the Earth