Children of the Star Quotes

“Yet if salvation of the world lay solely in old men’s caution, why would young people be born?”
― Sylvia Engdahl, Children of the Star: The Complete Trilogy

“The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person wouldn’t have opened his mind to such terror.”
― Sylvia Engdahl, Children of the Star