Darran Handshaw > Darran's Quotes

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
And what difference does that make?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.
Trust your demon.”
― Roger Zelazny

“Good-bye and hello, as always.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

“...even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?'

'Yes,' [said Caladan Brood.] 'You never learn.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“First in , Last out.


Motto of the bridgeburners”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“The greatest heroes are the ones who can climb up from beneath all the weight of the world to overcome their shortcomings and do what is needed.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“It is rare for certain to find two things that, without modification or alteration, can fit together with a perfection that is usually only manufactured.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“My mind is my sword.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“War is Death. If not theirs, then ours.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“Out here in the ruins one might find the answers to everything.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“We are born in the shadow of fading memories and fallen dreams, living our days within the decaying bones of an age long gone.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“The architects have left us clues below – such that we may one day be able to comprehend, it is my hope. But the answers, I fear... the answers lie in death... It is up to us to make sure that we do not find such a cruel solution to our lives.”
― Darran M. Handshaw, The Engineer

“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.”
― Arthur C Clarke