Infinity Beach Quotes

“We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.”
― Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach

“We live along the shores of night,
At the edge of the eternal sea.”
― Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach

“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.”
― Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach

“those whose tastes run to personal power could never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.”
― Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach

“Never look for complexity in diplomatic decisions. With very few exceptions, actions always devolve—and that’s the exact term—from someone’s self-interest. Not the national self-interest, by the way. We are talking here about individual careers.”
― Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach

“The problem, as Kim saw it, was to demonstrate why the Institute was valuable to the taxpayers, who tended to see it as a way to create jobs for overeducated people with nowhere to go. Kim hated to admit it, but she wasn’t sure the taxpayers were altogether wrong.”
― Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach