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1 " The way I figure it, here in New Earth, men's power has won out over women's power, just like it's done on Mainground. But men still fear women's power. No one ever forgets their mother's power to give them nourishment or withhold it. And men specially don't forget it, because they never grow into women themselves, and never lose a child's craving for the comfort of women's bodies. "
― Chris Beckett , Mother of Eden (Dark Eden, #2)
2 " And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt.It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on and on and on trough the generations, even after that person was long long dead. "
― Chris Beckett , Dark Eden (Dark Eden, #1)
3 " Now you're being sentimental, Marija. You shouldn't waste your pity on machines! If you want to pity someone, pity the poor guestworker who's chucked out of the territory when they build a robot to do his job! Pity the janitors, the nightwatchmen, the dustcart drivers. My God, even the whores have been put out of business now! We live in a country where we even fuck machines! "
― Chris Beckett , The Holy Machine
4 " The Holy ... Machine?" I mumbled. "Yes." She gave a little laugh. "A great miracle. He is a kind of robot, but God has given him a soul - and not an ordinary human soul either, but the soul of a saint or an angel!" "But ... I thought robots were ... bad ..." "Yes, of course, and Mary Magdalene was a whore. To God, all things are possible. "
5 " Nothing looks more lovely than something that’s about to end, and that’s true even if you yourself are going to be the cause of its ending. "
6 " Watch out for men who want to turn everything into a story that’s all about them. There will always be a few of them, and once one of them starts, another one of them will want to fight with him. "
7 " Why do we struggle so much? Why do we demand so much of life, when the happiest moments are when nothing is happening at all? "
8 " It was one of those moments when you wonder whether there is some kind of big misunderstanding and really this is all just a dream or a made-up story, and not the real world like you thought it was. "
9 " Which is the more useful, the scientific world-view, with all its wonderful technical miracles, or the religious world-view, with its sense of purpose and belonging? "
10 " Terrible things are done in the name of religion, without a doubt, but it was not religion but science that brought the world itself to the brink of destruction. "
11 " I did it because … Well, I’d never really understood about those moments before and I reckon a lot of people never really do get to understand them, but what I realized then was that I wasn’t just deciding what I wanted to do, I was deciding what kind of person I wanted to be. So I made my choice on that basis. And from now on, whenever I have a decision to make, I’m always going to make it in that same way. "
12 " I mean, wherever you are, that’s here, and that’s the only place you can be. Here or nowhere.’ I "
13 " Things always do, I've found: you grow tired of the ordinary things and long for some bright and wonderful thing that you can't reach, and then you find you can reach it, and it turns out to be just another ordinary thing. "
― Chris Beckett , Daughter of Eden (Dark Eden, #3)
14 " There are lots of different stories branching away all the time from every single thing that happens. As soon as a moment has gone, different versions of it start to be remembered and told about. And some of them carry on, and some die out, and you can't know in advance which version will last and which won't. "
15 " Dead people can’t talk back, and you can choose what you want to hear them say, and know they’ll never tell you you’re wrong. "
