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1 " [S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar. "
― Joan D. Vinge , The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
2 " How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days! "
3 " I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared. "
― Joan D. Vinge , Catspaw (Cat, #2)
4 " Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal. "
5 " To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need. "
― Joan D. Vinge , Psion (Cat, #1)
6 " If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. "
― Joan D. Vinge , Dune Storybook
7 " Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. "
8 " the sleeper must awaken "
9 " Laws were made by men, and men made mistakes. "
― Joan D. Vinge , 47 Ronin
10 " Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn’t act, it allows. And that’s what gives it so much power. "
11 " A szépsége még mindig ugyanúgy lenyűgözte Kait, mint fiúkorában, bár nem a ruhái élénk színe, és ne is gyönyörű finoman metszett arca ejtette rabul a szívét, olyan szerelmet ébresztve benne, amely aztán évekig életben tartotta őt - hanem az, amit azonnal meglátott a szemében, amikor először találkozott a tekintetük: hogy egy öreg lélek felismer egy másikat. "
12 " But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?""Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power. "
13 " Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can. "
14 " In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. "
― Joan D. Vinge
15 " There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it. "
― Joan D. Vinge , The Summer Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #3)
16 " Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. "
17 " It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now. "
18 " Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness. "
19 " Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect. "
20 " Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all. "
