Sara Mooney > Sara's Quotes

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance.

In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”

“McLuhanesque?”

“Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.”

“In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?”

“Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

“humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can’t just stop.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol