The Land Quotes

“when he was faced with an impossible choice, when the futures of all paths were equally shadowed, when the countless possibilities of either choice either balanced out or were hopelessly confusing, that he would make a decision based on what he hoped to be true, rather than by what he feared to be true.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“As his gramps used to say, his head was more than just a hat rack.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“Apparently gossip flowed faster than curry through a baby.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“Cannot convert Iron Mine to a Naquadah, Unobtanium, Dilithium or Badassium Mine.  These are nonsense words.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“on an anvil in front of the dwarf and seemed to be strutting around.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“Is this not also true of your world?”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“there was no shame in ignorance, only in willful ignorance that does not seek to correct itself.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“Richter had long ago learned that the first step in dealing with negative emotions was to accept that they were part of you.  A basic mistake that people made over and over was to try and deny the worst parts of themselves.  ‘I’m not angry, jealous, vindictive, petty, etc.’  Though it was only natural to shy from difficult truths, denial did not give you control over yourself.  It merely ignored a part of what you were.  That was actually the complete absence of control.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“but he had forgotten a core principle that applied in every world and plane of existence.  If you referenced a woman’s weight, the options were to give her jewelry or feel the pain!”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“The Messeji has begun!”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“Each ton was about nine hundred kilos.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“I do not eat vegetables. That includes fish… because it is a vegetable. I also do not believe in drinking water. It is a beverage that does not try enough. Be whiskey or do not exist. I love riddles. I only have nine toes, and the most graceful animal on the planet is a mini-horse.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“stop and think.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“Red, in his experience, was only good in very specific scenarios: apples, carpets and drapes.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators