The Stars Undying Quotes

“...I felt a kind of pity, and was reminded not for the first time how close pity was to disgust.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“You know why they behave like this, don't you" he said. "Insist everyone act as they do, enter into their wonderful liberation? They're a lonely people. Seeing someone without their ideals frightens them. They want to embrace him, to bring him into the fold. But however far they spread their thinking, the loneliness never goes away.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“If you had any decent power, civilisation would be whatever you happened to be doing at the moment.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“When I was very young, I thought everyone in the world must have a twin somewhere. How else would they know their reflections?”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“Her expression might almost have been one of pity. "In another life, Madam Oracle," she said, "in another life, I think you and I could have been friends."
"We only get one life," I said.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“When you are held in the mouth of a god, sometimes the best you can do is let yourself be swallowed and call it homecoming.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“And when you are educated, when you have read enough stories and when you know enough about the story you are listening to, you grow to expect the death of the hero, and when death comes, the end of anticipation is even a relief.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying

“A man that keeps Ana Decretan as his intimate, who is sick over the table of her entertainers while Galvao Arcadian fights her battles in Far Madinabia, might well consider degeneracy a type of friendship," he said. "You, who keep your people in bondage with madness or with lies and call that government, might well consider going to your knees a type of friendship. But Ciao is of a different substance - and what you hold in your had will always be anathema to it.”
― Emery Robin, The Stars Undying