Robin Rumpunen
https://www.goodreads.com/robinrumpunen
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
―
―
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
“(Plants on the disc, while including the categories known commonly as annuals, which were sown this year to come up later this year, biennials, sown this year to grow next year, and perennials, sown this year to grow until further notice, also included a few rare re-annuals which, because of an unusual four-dimensional twist in their genes, could be planted this year to come up last year. The vul nut vine was particularly exceptional in that it could flourish as many as eight years prior to its seed actually being sown. Vul nut wine was reputed to give certain drinkers an insight into the future which was, from the nut's point of view, the past. Strange but true.)”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
“Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.”
― Needful Things
― Needful Things
“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Robin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Robin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Robin
Lists liked by Robin






















