The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin

how many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality, evil?

Wang was familiar with old intellectuals like her: The long years had ground away all the hardness and fierceness in their personalities, until all that was left was a gentleness like that of water.

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”

Pan held out his hand to the remaining five, shaking each person’s hand in turn. Then he said, solemnly, “We are comrades now.”