“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“I’d taken up peoples’ whole lives, Mason –they’d been trying to make it work for that long. And the new generation . . . they didn’t know as much. They had learned what they could but . . . and then came another generation, devolving, understanding less than before.”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
“it is a warning to those who would be warned and a lesson to those who would learn.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.”
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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