Gibbon's Decline and Fall Quotes

“It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall

“Perhaps it is meant to be hard. Perhaps there are some things so previous that one can only be tested when one is asked to give them up.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall

“With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall

“Lately I feel that I'm living in a badly written, badly directed foreign movie that's running on late-night TV in black-and-white with lots of static and inadequate subtitles.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall

“like alien creatures, not human at all, not like the self in the mirror. Not like the shadow self waiting somewhere, somewhere behind veils to come to her.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall: A Novel

“I know how to get you over that. I’ve done it before. Just call me Dr. Pat.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall: A Novel