Neuen Quotes

“We’d had our wings clipped. There was vast potential lying in wait and going to waste all the while. We could be so much more if given the chance, if woken from our hibernation, shaken from our stasis. I saw what we could achieve, sol after sol, in the small, mundane acts of our nomadic purgatory. There was greatness. We just needed the collective push to become more.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“Sitting there, with the urn casting flickering flames on our faces, I saw it. The yearning, his angst. But at the time, I mistook the source of his desires. In my egotism, I thought it was all directed at me. I made the mistake of imaging myself as the axis of Levi’s world. The nexus of his desires.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“GenEn wasn’t an evil to be shunned but a tool to be used. The problem wasn’t GenEn but that we’d lost control of it precisely because we had treated the very knowledge of it as taboo.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“That’s where GLEtches comes from…GermLine Editing trace. You change the genome, edit it, at most stages in a person’s life, and it doesn’t get passed on to their offspring…The sticking point is if you do the editing to the embryo or at the very earliest stage in the fetus’s development. In that case, the alterations get passed on. That’s when you change what it means to be human.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen

“I looked out on the Break, that ever-present twilight safely in the Goldilocks zone where the bitter colds of night and searing heats of day met and mingled. It was where we Reisende lived, nomadic, following the slow rotation of Neuen.”
― Sheri Singerling, Neuen