8 posts tagged “quote”
"What's particle physics?" asked Bod.
Scarlett shrugged. "Well," she said. "There's atoms, which is things that is too small to see, that's what we're all made of. And there's things that's smaller than atoms, and that's particle physics."
Bod nodded and decided that Scarlett's father was probably interested in imaginary things.
-- "The New Friend"
And they are, for the most part, done with the world. You are not. You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.
-- "Nobody Owens' School Days"
Evolution does not require that we know why we do what we do -- just that we do it. [Source]
If there's one thing that I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, how matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--
When you are lost or looking for someone suspected lost, the CROWDS of people form a threatening undertow, undermining your every effort.
You're just afraid to die, aren't you? You're afraid! Oh, you think your life's so important.
It is. Even more so because he saved it. And when I no longer need saving, when I no longer need protection, when my life is entirely my own, I'll think about how I'm going to live it. I'll worry about regrets and repentance, then.
Right now... right now is for living.
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.
To this, I attribute in my possession of some of the best books I own-- the Moyen de Parvenir, for example, printed at Chinon in the early seventeenth century, with the note on its title page: "New edition, corrected of divers faults that weren't there, and augmented by many others entirely new."
"He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement.
"Why should he be?" Kazul said.
"Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered, a little taken aback.
"What difference does that make to a cat?"
