Willful Child Quotes

“Hadrian held the headphones close to one ear. “What is this, Eden? You’re listening to music? Stupid, crappy music?”
The square-jawed man stared blankly at him. “It’s Celine Dion, sir.”
“Get security up here! I want this man in irons. Prepare the Dark Hole!”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“Logic is simply the language of convenient rationalization in a pseudo-science-loving civilization.”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“And out there, in that unending cavalcade of danger, I intend to enjoy myself.”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“Well, that's how the past is for most of us, Tammy. A jumbled collection of sordid stupidities, hopeless longings and hapless regrets.”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“I conclude that your particular species, Captain, advances by way of deadly incompetence, willful ignorance, deliberate misunderstanding, and venal acquisitiveness, combined with serendipitous technological superiority.”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“My God," Hadrian said. "They finally did it! All those oh-so-cute-my-cuddly-kitten-here's-a-pic bastard! They finally went and did it!”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“Well, we're fascistic and overmilitarized and being governed by reactionary undereducated proud-to-be-ignorant meatheads for one thing”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“Hadrian cleared his throat and said, "Listen, HUB - oh and do thank Tammy for teaching you Terranglais. Hub, I have, uh, a question for you."
"Proceed, Disappointingly Predictable and Wholly Enervating on the Spiritual-IQ Sentience-Complex Nodal Biological”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child

“Hadrian slapped him on the back. "I'm liking you more and more, Buck. A claustrophobic engineer who's entirely devoid of curiosity trapped aboard a spaceship in the midst of eternal darkness”
― Steven Erikson, Willful Child