Philip Palmer > Quotes

“I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.”
― Philip Palmer

“What happens," called out Max, "if you win?"
"We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained”
― Philip Palmer

“The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.”
― Philip Palmer, Artemis

“I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.”
― Philip Palmer, Artemis

“As well as the factory euthanasia and mass poisoning of undesirables and sicklies and uglies, it was the policy of all Earth system settlements that all newborn babies should be carefully scrutinised. And any infant which didn't get the requisite number of ticks on his or her Future Citizen's Examination (with categories including pre-natal health, birth weight, potential IQ, and parental DNA mix) would be terminated. Abortion was, in fact, a thing of the past; infanticide was now considered to be a much fairer method of quality control.”
― Philip Palmer, Debatable Space

“I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank, I bored even myself. And by the time I was thirty-six, my course was set, my die stamped, I knew I would never change.”
― Philip Palmer, Debatable Space