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21 " Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. "
― Joan D. Vinge
22 " I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is. "
― Joan D. Vinge , The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
23 " Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown "
24 " Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the difference. "
25 " My gods or your gods, who know which are stronger?' That's why we honor them all - just in case. There are more cultures even than Gods in the Eight Worlds, and among them you'll find people who are willing to kill you, or each other, over any difference in belief or lifestyle or physical appearance you can imagine - and some you can't. They all think they're right. There's no Truth, Tammis, only differences of opinion. "
― Joan D. Vinge , The Summer Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #3)
26 " All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain. "
27 " Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge. "
28 " I love you,' he whispered again, wonderingly, as he understood at last how a lifetime together with someone that you loved could seem like an eternity, and yet not be long enough. "
29 " You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away. "
30 " Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no matter how important it seems, really cause a ripple in the greater scheme of things? "
31 " There were some things even the rules of an absolute human overlord had no right to deny, and one of them was justice "
― Joan D. Vinge , 47 Ronin
32 " even the gods suffered when injustice unbalanced the flow of all existence. It was the gods' will that the balance must be restored...Let the gods bear witness then, he would become the instrument of their will. No matter what laws of men he had to defy "
33 " He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go. "
34 " There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled. "
35 " Jule was a poet—poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence. "
― Joan D. Vinge , Psion (Cat, #1)
36 " Nos, én azt vallom, hogy akár táncolunk, akár nem, bohócok vagyunk, úgyhogy ezzel az erővel akár táncolhatunk is. "
37 " Aki megszületik, annak meg is kell halnia. Akik találkoznak, azoknak el is kell válniuk... De amin megosztozunk ebben az életben, azt már soha nem lehet elvenni tőlünk. "
38 " - Ezer világon és tízezer életen át is kereslek majd, amíg meg nem talállak.- Én pedig várok majd rá, minden világban és minden életben... "
39 " Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn’t mind. "
40 " Minden napjukat betöltötte az aware, a szívbe markoló fájdalom, amely kibogozhatatlanul összefonódik minden olyan pillanattal, amikor a lélek látszólag tökéletes egyensúlyba kerül, mert az ilyen pillanatok mindig túl hamar véget érnek, akárcsak az utolsó korty a finom szakéból, a nyárestén a tengert megvilágító tűzijáték... vagy egyszerűen a tavaszi égbolt hibátlan kéksége. "