Helliconia Winter Quotes

“On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free—free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“Evil is loose in the world. I have to go.” “I don’t believe in evil. Mistakes, yes. Not evil.” “Then perhaps you are afraid to believe it exists. It exists wherever men are. It”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“Family must rely upon family, since governments do not comprehend families.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“A woman needs fatalism more than a man. A woman’s role in life is to listen, and when I listen I never hear anything but the howl of the wind. I prefer the sound of my own voice.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“He began talking to an imagined woman, achieving an eloquence that was never his when he was face to face with anyone else.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter

“The night was alive. So thickly was the snow falling that, brushing against a human face in its descent, it resembled the fur of a great beast. The fur was less cold than suffocating: it occupied space normally taken up by air and sound. But when the sledge stopped, the staid brazen tongue of a bell could be distantly heard.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Winter