The Board of Quality Control is firmly convinced that 13.6213 percent of all Gold children should die before one year of age. Sometimes they make reality fit this number.” He splays out his thin hands. “Why? Because they believe
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“does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing,” he said. “You are like children. Afraid of the dark.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
― Ground Zero
― Ground Zero
“good old right-hand rule made it possible to tell how”
― Andromeda: The Arrival
― Andromeda: The Arrival
“Saturday night special if he’d ever seen one—pointed at”
― Infernal
― Infernal
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