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He was afraid, not that his questions might meet more blank walls, but that he would receive answers.
Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
“Mother Superior, if I thought you would produce another monster on Rakis, I would have said so.
Some days it’s melange; some days it’s bitter dirt.
Love, damnable love, weakening love.
their entire lives were devoted to trying to break out of chains they themselves created.”
The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.”
Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love.
“I feel what I feel,” she said. “And your water is ours, Duncan Idaho.”