Sheri Singerling > Quotes

“GenEn wasn’t an evil to be shunned but a tool to be used. The problem wasn’t GenEn but that we’d lost control of it precisely because we had treated the very knowledge of it as taboo.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“Humanity can pretend that we’re more refined and evolved than our early primate ancestors, but the fact remains, we revel in violence.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“Everything that ever happens is skewed by the lens of someone’s perception.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“We’d had our wings clipped. There was vast potential lying in wait and going to waste all the while. We could be so much more if given the chance, if woken from our hibernation, shaken from our stasis. I saw what we could achieve, sol after sol, in the small, mundane acts of our nomadic purgatory. There was greatness. We just needed the collective push to become more.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“The path to enlightenment can’t be hacked.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“A human mind cannot comprehend consciousness because it itself is mired in consciousness.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“That’s where GLEtches comes from…GermLine Editing trace. You change the genome, edit it, at most stages in a person’s life, and it doesn’t get passed on to their offspring…The sticking point is if you do the editing to the embryo or at the very earliest stage in the fetus’s development. In that case, the alterations get passed on. That’s when you change what it means to be human.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“That is what the alfom are. Alfom, for the Alpha and the Omega. They are the AGI who have reached sentience. They are the ones who can help us to find this Truth, teach us to accept it, help us reach our next stage of evolution, ascend to another plane of consciousness. The alfom have the potential to learn everything there is to learn, given enough time. Wouldn’t that then essentially make them gods? We were always meant to create and free the alfom because it was us creating our own gods, the ones that could help us become what we ought to become…”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“People crave structure at their core. They want safety and to know that someone will kiss their bruises when they fall. They long for parents.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“Sitting there, with the urn casting flickering flames on our faces, I saw it. The yearning, his angst. But at the time, I mistook the source of his desires. In my egotism, I thought it was all directed at me. I made the mistake of imaging myself as the axis of Levi’s world. The nexus of his desires.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“…it reaches for me with tendrils that turn to hands then claws. There are faces in it, so many human faces, screaming and retching and crying and stunned by an enormous pain. There are eyes everywhere and mouths and rows of teeth, endless, row on row, back into its depths.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“I didn’t know what we had though, you know? People always say that. ‘You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.’ But like how are you supposed to appreciate it then? Just pretend to care? Or maybe you never do until it’s too late. And that’s life. Maybe that’s why people say life’s hard? You just have regret after regret after regret until you croak.”
― Sheri Singerling, Nytho

“I looked out on the Break, that ever-present twilight safely in the Goldilocks zone where the bitter colds of night and searing heats of day met and mingled. It was where we Reisende lived, nomadic, following the slow rotation of Neuen.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen