The Snow Queen Quotes

“But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?"

"Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the difference.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“[S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn’t act, it allows. And that’s what gives it so much power.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no matter how important it seems, really cause a ripple in the greater scheme of things?”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Human beings have been treating each other like animals forever. If they can't recognize an intelligent being in the mirror, it's not so damn surprising that they treat nonhumans worse.”
― joan d. vinge, The Snow Queen

“They said it was death to kill a sibyl, death to love a sibyl, death to be a sibyl … and they meant a living death.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen