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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

“Do you remember what happened to Mexico when Cortez and his very fine good friends arrived from Spain? A whole civilization destroyed by greedy, righteous bigots. History will never forgive Cortez.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“I never thought of God as humorous,” said Father Stone. “The Creator of the platypus, the camel, the ostrich, and man? Oh, come now!”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland. It was like a heart beating alone in a great dark body. He felt almost sorrowful with pride, gazing at it with wet eyes.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“The brain shuts down, and the soul watches from a distance as the body tumbles at ever-increasing speed toward doom. This is because, though instinct is good at many things, it’s stupid about death.”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara’s bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child’s face. After”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Riding broomsticks, consorting with unholy powers. Who has the time for such pleasantries anymore? Why, I haven’t been on a date since the late eighties.”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“So you assume we go around painting ourselves with pitch and swooping from rooftops to devour innocents, and call ourselves things like Shale Swiftwing, Beloved of the Goddess, Scout-in-Shadows.”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Knowledge,” Tara replied, turning a page as quietly as she could manage, “is power.”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“And she accepted the bridge date from the tentacled horror, with the proviso that her schedule would be inflexible for the next several weeks. Up”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Yes,” she said. “It makes you the most stupid, single-minded collection of religious fanatics I’ve ever come across. I mean,” she amended as growls rose about her and green eyes narrowed, “I could not imagine ever doing something like that, but it’s terribly sweet.”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Engineers: they spend so much time solving physical problems and obeying physical rules, they forget that nonphysical phenomena obey rules every bit as strict.” Tara”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“I don’t know,” he had answered grimly, “except that the time-tested method of instilling social virtue and respect for law in the minds of the young did not appeal to a pre-scientific pseudo-professional class who called themselves ‘social workers’ or sometimes ‘child psychologists.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“Because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. “Nevertheless,”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives—such”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any “right” to expand through it. In”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“All good stories leave questions.”
― Usman T. Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

“If an asshole weeps in the forest and no one is around to witness, is he still an asshole? Nobody”
― Usman T. Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

“People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present.” “Maybe”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

“More than once he’d wandered into a brothel and left only when they threw him out with an emptied account, a sore groin, and a prostate as dry as the Sahara desert.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt