The Lord of Opium Quotes

“I think people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“The secret of successful education...is finding out how a particular person learns”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“It isn’t healthy to care for someone who can never love you back.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The result was a burst of creativity and prosperity never seen before.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“You get used to being evil.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“I could do it," Listen boasted. "Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet."
"You can't even reach the on button," said Cienfuegos.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Oh, yes he does. He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap," declared Listen.
"You're the most obnoxious little brat I've ever met."
"Both of you be quiet,”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“I think that people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Once, he'd been satisfied by the music alone. Now he had learned about friendship...”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them. I don't think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don't have that”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“scissors, paper, rock.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“It’s strange. He knows more about science than we do, and he’s a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines. All we know how to do is press buttons, but he knows how the buttons work.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“The secret of successful education is finding out how a particular person learns.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“He knows more about science than we do, and he's a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines. All we know how to do is press buttons, but he knows how the buttons work.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“The brain is shaped by the experiences of the body, and the body is shaped by the brain. Changing one part results in lethal confusion for the other.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Don't leave it too long. It's harder to repair a friendship later.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary?

They're only sad.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother!”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium