The Jewels of Aptor Quotes

“Now, take all we've been through, the confusion, the pain, the disorder; reconcile that with the great order obvious in something like the sea, with its rhythm, its tides and waves, its overpowering calm, or the ordering of cells in a leaf, or a constellation of stars. If you can do it, something happens to you: you grow.”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor

“Now, take all we've been through, the confusion, the pain, the disorder; reconcile that with the great order obvious in something like the sea, with its rhythm, its tides and waves, its overpowering calm, or f the ordering of cells in a leaf, or a constellation of stars. If you can do it, something happens to you: you grow.”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor

“For no matter how good his intentions are when he takes up the power, his alternate reason is that freedom, the freedom of other people and ultimately his own, terrifies him. Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, or could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power. For this reason, the jewels are evil. That is why we have summoned you to steal them from us.”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor