“Pity always was a luxury. It’s all right if the tragedy’s a comfortable distance away – if you can watch it from a seat in the cinema. It’s different when you find it on your doorstep – on every doorstep.”
― The Death of Grass
― The Death of Grass
“Each smiled and nodded courteously, and each knew the other lied.”
― Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
― Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
“The Guardships don't defend Canon, they exterminate Canon's enemies. There's a difference.”
― The Dragon Never Sleeps
― The Dragon Never Sleeps
“And explaining them - I now feel myself duty-bound to do it, if only because I am the author of these records, to say nothing of the fact that the unknown is in general the enemy of man, and Homo sapiens is not fully man until his grammar is absolutely rid of question marks, leaving nothing but exclamation points, commas, and periods.”
― We
― We
“No, but you see what I mean: you should be able to renew your youth in the generation that follows yours. In your thirties, your sons keep you nimble and laughing. In your forties, they keep you worried and attached to the world. In your fifties, you may have grandchildren to play with. You can live till your grandchildren come along to see your creaking smiles and your card tricks… They replenish you. If everyone's cut off from all that — who's to wonder if time goes wrong, or if poor old Charley gets some crazy idea about seeing gnomes?”
― Greybeard
― Greybeard
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