“Everything’ll be all right, desolation is desolation everywhere and desolation is all we got and desolation aint so bad”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
“Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed, and near the surface of a neutron star gravity crushed absolutely, until diamond flowed like water; until a mountain collapsed into a millionth of its height.”
― Revelation Space
― Revelation Space
“One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.”
― Inversions
― Inversions
“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
― The Player of Games
― The Player of Games
“That was the Dependency Principle; that you could never forget where your Off switches were located, even if it was somewhere tiresome.”
― Excession
― Excession
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