Rebekah V > Rebekah's Quotes

“Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all –”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Successful cooperation does not equate to successful understanding.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“When you’ve thought of everything you should, and done everything you need to, then let whatever happens happen.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Don’t dismiss simplicity. Simple means solid.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Time is the one thing that can’t be stopped. Like a sharp blade, it silently cuts through hard and soft, constantly advancing. Nothing is capable of jolting it even the slightest bit, but it changes everything.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Emancipation of human nature inevitably brings with it scientific and technological progress.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“There are no permanent enemies or comrades, only permanent duty.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“The ancients were not as sensitive as moderns, and in the present circumstances, numbness served an excellent self-protective function.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“The birth of a new civilization is the formation of a new morality.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“The night I finished building the lighthouse, I took my boat out to the sea to look at it from a distance. And all of a sudden I had a thought: Death is the only lighthouse that is always lit. No matter where you sail, ultimately, you must turn toward it. Everything fades in the world, but Death endures.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“You know what is right, and you have the courage and sense of duty to do it. This makes you extraordinary.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“If you accept that in this complex system, everything is connected, interdependent, then all those parts come together, acting and reacting to construct a whole. But it begins somewhere, and that place is the void.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“the number zero here represents someone’s attempt to trace consciousness back to the source of all existence.”
― Veronica G. Henry, The People's Library

“Those who believed feel cheated, robbed by one man’s stupidity. Those who didn’t are defeated just the same. There’s no prize for having been ashamed early.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, A History of What Comes Next

“Do we truly care for people, for their empirical selves, or do we care for how we experience them?”
― Sylvain Neuvel, A History of What Comes Next