Bee Speaker Quotes

“Change is a bastard, as any disnosaur will tell you.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“It is truly amazing how many flavors of dumb an apocalypse can spawn.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“None of those strongman big-man return-to-traditional-values types is worth remembering, honestly. Not even those who declared us an enemy of the people they so blithely claimed to speak for. Not even those who challenged us for the throne of heaven. Gone, all gone, and all their aspirations. The big men who, inside, were just small men who couldn’t bear a big world. Who wanted to put up barriers and close borders, so they could shrink their surroundings until they themselves felt larger. Small minds. Small hearts. Small ambitions.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“But, at the end of all of that, we'd have had the problem that any actual alien invasion would face, and that the genre novels and entertainments so seldom really consider. Which is what the hell use is an Earth once you have it? If you have the universe, why go to the trouble? An Earth, populated or depopulated, what would one do with it, exactly? Too big a trophy to go on the mantelpiece, and not exactly full of rare resources to us, who can go anywhere. Earth people are very big on their own significance. One longs for those narratives to have the Arcturian Battle Fleet just glide on by, embarrassedly signalling, Sorry humankind, we're going somewhere actually interesting, can't stop!”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“We burned tomorrow so we could sell the ashes today,”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“The worse things got, the worse the leaders they chose. Each war, disaster, shortage, each turn of the screw, there was always some shyster in the wings, waiting for their moment to take the stage in a welter of promises and populist appeals.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“Earth has life and nobody ever warned me how riotous every little piece of it is to the ear and the eye and the nose.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“Maybe that’s the crack in her shell. She can’t feel for anything she considers a person, but pets are different.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“Gentle progress, saviour of the mild, guardian of thought and memory, bless us so that our every dusk shall be incrementally better than the dawn which preceded it,”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker