It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance....

Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying. The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the...

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger...

It’s very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized….The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart,...

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

I’m going home.” – Celeste”To never return?” – Uway”Yes, show me the way to never return.” – CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.

He smiles at her before ever opening his eyes. The innocence in his face ensnares. Wraps her heart in a cocoon.They did this to him. The Society. Constructed that smile with malicious expectations. Now she...

We’re more alike than you realize.

Do I look that bad?’ I said, my voice quavering with the rejection that I was ashamed for even caring about. ‘Is that what this is all about? How ugly I look?’Patrick kept his eyes...

The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe.

A pulse. Beat-beating against her palm. Alive. Beat by beat the bottomless whirlwind of perceptions and data and images and sensations careening through her mind—so many how can this tiny skull hold them all—began to...

Prestidigitation? You’ve got to be joking. No one says that.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

What is damage but forcing yourself, memories of yourself, onto someone else? Coloring someone else’s body. In reality, it’s sort of romantic. It’s why we love to hurt each other.

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.

Every nook and cranny,” Marietta interrupted dryly and Gabrielle tipped her head back with a throaty laugh.

Death whispers your name to me.

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towrds injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That’s all it was.” – Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL

Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky...

He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands.

Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please.

Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.

You’ll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

It wouldn’t be fair to rank them.” Caleb gunned the engine.

Solutions sometimes present themselves after a reset.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake.

I really, really need some help and advice. I’m scared… I’m scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core....

A place without meaning is no place to be.

I’m 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it...

Act like you’re in pain.” Then she mimics a painful expression in case Summer doesn’t understand. On the contrary, Summer’s an expert at interpreting body language and reading lips. It’s all thanks to her observant...

I know who I am, and I’m being true to myself.

Love can provide strength when intellect can find no reason for it.