The pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
The history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have alwa...
Such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Everyo...
One thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing a fantasy. I hadn't expected ever to write a fantasy, because I am not a great fan...
Ferocious and meaningless screams.
Consciousness is a perfectly normal property of matter, like mass or anbaric charge; that there is a field of consciousness which pervades the entire universe, and which makes itself apparent most ful...
As if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.
Adjusting her balance like a wave rider in the Peaceable Ocean.
You shouldn’t do it if you hate it. That’s just prostitution.
You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.
You know the theorem of Pythagoras? The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. That’s exactly it. And is that true for every example you’ve tried? Yes.
Yes, Dr. Malone went on, they know we’re here. They answer back. And here goes the crazy part: you can’t see them unless you expect to. Unless you put your mind in a certain state. You have to be conf...
Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.
Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once....
Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existenc...
We’ll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we’ll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we’ll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon...
We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race--I will come first--and you wind up the future like clockwork. The world has no ch...
Was I wrong? Yes, of course. But you had no choice. I must have. No, you had to do it. If you hadn’t done it, you’d have felt feeble. It shouldn’t be about how we feel—guilty, feeble— No, and it isn’t...
There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There's others who longed t...