Death's End (The Three-Body Problem, #3)

by Cixin Liu

“Let me say something else that’s not directly relevant here. As a writer, I want to express my respect for the author. As fairy tales, these are very good.”

Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.

By the time the builders of this monument truly understood the power of time, they no longer believed that a vanished civilization could really leave behind any marks that would last through geologic eons.

The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts.