The Doors of Eden Quotes

“We’re here and they trust us.’ Mal chuckled. ‘It’s a million-to-one long shot, and only these two desperate lesbians can save the world. Perfect action movie material.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“there is something magical about the boundary between land and water that nurtures complexity.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Lucas May had been in the army, though not, as he tended to tell people, in the SAS. Instead, he’d done his time in the logistics corps, organizing the movement of people and things from place to place, which probably gave him a more useful skillset.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“she had borrowed hope at a ruinous interest rate—one that she had no chance of paying back.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Well firstly, darling, I am the best theoretical mathematician and physicist you will ever meet. And I am fucking well meant to be able to understand impossible shit like this,” Kay said sourly. “And secondly, I think the world is going to end, and I need to understand this if I’m going to make it stop.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Only one needs to find the answer, but difference is strength. To save everything, we need as much difference as possible.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Evolution is inevitable once you have an imperfectly self-replicating system in an environment of limited resources.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Evolution”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Lee kept glancing at them and felt like leaping up and yelling, 'I'll be able to prove everything soon! And you'll be sorry you laughed at me.' But she didn't, of course, because that wouldn't have been very British of her.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“You are gullible. Surrounded by people you don't know, with your leaders even less knowable, and you are gullible. Someone says a thing to you strongly enough, you believe them. You take confidence for truth. We don't do that. Someone says a thing, we tell them to show us how it is true...But you let people with strong words tell you what the truth is. Kings, emperors, tyrants. You are about the many for the few, for the one.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“It wasn't that Rove was a genius-level intellect, but he had a very specific set of skills. Lucas wasn't qualified to diagnose sociopathy, but Rove was capable of telling anyone anything, making utterly convincing promises and being bound by none of it. Rove loved Rove first, things useful to Rove second. And nothing else.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Alison realized the Cousins usually looked tired and vaguely depressed. It was as though being here and dealing with regular human people was just so much work.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Imagine life as a manual that includes instructions for replicating itself.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Far more than the disputed effects of Toxoplasma gondii in your domestic pets,”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“There are metrics of success that would place ants, beetles or bacteria at the top. However, we are all naturally biased to value large, fierce animals, those that can adapt to change and exploit opportunities.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“To adapt to the surf and shore is to shoulder more burdens than to commit wholly to either land or water.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“these early signs collapsed like enlightened empires before the tides of barbarism.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“she had borrowed hope at a ruinous interest rate—one that she had no chance of paying back. She”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“There is a place in our minds now that tools—made things, things of value—occupy, and there was a time when our ancestors’ minds had no such place. Nothing was ever for keeps, and there was no tomorrow for the tool-makers.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Big doesn’t mean smart, of course; ask any sauropod.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden