Truth of the Divine Quotes

“Please don’t apologize for the act of experiencing pain.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“We all have ways of showing our patriotism, and mine is holding my country to account. I want to dissuade her from her worst, cruellest impulses, for I truly believe that if she does not evolve past them, she will not survive.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Are you okay?” he asked. She sat up. Of course she wasn’t okay. What about this was okay? The scaffolding of her entire being was threatening to collapse. “Yeah.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“they were born sterile, and even their ancestors didn’t experience sexuality the way humans do, because a human will, of course, fuck anything.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“it. I hate that the phrase daddy issues is even in the vernacular. Like abusive failures of parents causing lifelong damage can be dismissed as just ‘daddy issues.’ It isn’t creepy to compare your partners to your parents—your parents are the ones who train you what to expect from relationships. They teach you how love works, and they train you how to expect others to treat you. That’s true for everyone regardless of who your parents are.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Space Intelligence National Security Task Force,”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“ROSA did not offer benefits,”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“In that way, America is synecdoche for humanity as a whole—capable of such feats of wonder, such innovation, such compassion, but also such greed, such exploitation, such consumption, such empire, and such cruelty. Are these truly traits of our shared human nature? Is this an inexorable, inescapable state of our being? Or is this all the result of a shared construct that we have erroneously agreed is a necessary evil of civilization, a fiction agreed upon, one that might be changed? If it is the latter, then perhaps we might be saved, but if it is the former, if our self-destructive tendencies arise not from construct but from our innate natures, then I truly believe that we will not survive. After a point, it is not even a question of surviving First Contact; outside intelligences need not be our own undoing if we can take care of our own destruction ourselves.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Was it Cats?”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“You don’t know shit about anything but this cartoon caricature you’ve constructed about every culture that isn’t your own meathead version of whiteness.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Assigning gender to pronouns is just as logical as assigning race or height or any other physical attribute to them, and just as relevant to me.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“I hate that the phrase daddy issues is even in the vernacular. Like abusive failures of parents causing lifelong damage can be dismissed as just ‘daddy issues.’ It isn’t creepy to compare your partners to your parents—your parents are the ones who train you what to expect from relationships. They teach you how love works, and they train you how to expect others to treat you. That’s true for everyone regardless of who your parents are.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“The “dead dove, do not eat” of first-contact scenarios. Well, he thought, I don’t know what I expected.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“I ADMIT, IT IS FRIGHTENING. YOU ARE FRIGHTENING.” Kaveh snorted. “Well, you have a point. We are the species that produced Bill Maher.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“TIME IS A SIDE EFFECT OF THE POCKET OF SPACE WE INHABIT, THAT OF THREE DIMENSIONS. WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF DIMENSIONS?” “N-not much.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine