The Long Mars Quotes

“So many worlds, so many wonders.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“You can never have too much backup.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“I can tell you what I feel. That God is not out there somewhere. God is in us, in our everyday lives. In the act of understanding. God is the sacredness of comprehension – no, of the act of comprehension.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“Nelson had to smile. ‘Theology? David, this is the Church of England. We don’t do theology.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“Right. Mars has about the same day as Earth, so a twenty-four-hour orbit does the trick here too. Then you just drop a cable down through the atmosphere—’ ‘The engineering details of that,’ Frank said dryly, ‘are left as an exercise for the reader.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“this was”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“The Long Earth was my Narnia. You know Narnia?"
"That's the one with the hobbits, right?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“We meant well.” My God, I wonder how many sins have been justified by that line?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“There was a novel called Red Mars—”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“was somewhat upsetting to a decent Catholic girl, for there was no room for that in the orthodox theology. However, she’d always concentrated on the old maxim that the best course was to do the good that was in front of her, and to put such doubts aside.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“On this night, as on many nights on these desolate Marses, he wondered what the point of it all was: all these empty worlds, an emptiness made worse by the brief and rare windows of habitability they found, almost all slammed shut with the finality of extinction. Was it crueller to have lived and died, or never to have lived at all?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“God is not out there somewhere. God is in us, in our everyday lives. In the act of understanding. God is the sacredness of comprehension – no, of the act of comprehension.’ ‘You”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky.’ ‘Very”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“you clever apes, smart enough to destroy everything around you, never smart enough to understand what it is you are losing in the process . . .”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“As if we see these worlds, the whole of the Long Earth all at once, through the eyes of a god.’ Only”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars

“Your gods are trivial constructs. Easy to dismiss. Animistic fantasies or mammalian wish complexes. You are lost children longing for papa, and casting his image into the sky.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars