1.4 Quotes

“Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4

“There's actually no point in following in another's footsteps TOO exactly, you'll end up leaving no tracks of your own.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4

“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious. But once you get into it, once you forget the way you're reading and concentrate on what you're reading, it becomes a really unique experience. You have to work to draw meaning from it rather than having a meaning given to you. It doesn't tell you how to think.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4

“Superstition requires no tests, no measurements, no proof: just faith.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4

“She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.

Words gave concepts power.

Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4

“a word once let out of its cage cannot be whistled back again,”
― Mike A. Lancaster, The Future We Left Behind

“We all have to do things our own way. There’s actually no point in following in another’s footprints too exactly, you’ll end up leaving no tracks of your own.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4

“If all that you REMEMBER is all that you are: who are you today? And who were you yesterday?”
― Mike A. Lancaster, 1.4