Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) QUOTES

1 " ...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so close, on a grand cosmic scale. A near-infinite universe, and they were practically next-door neighbors. Looking into his eyes was like looking into ten billion years of history, like she could see the particles and rocks and gasses coalesce over eons, until somehow, impossibly, here they both were. "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

3 " Yes, it would look like she was smuggling an ostrich with a tarp on it into a motel room, but this also looked like the type of establishment to not particularly judge for that sort of thing. "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

5 " digging through her purse airily as though she’d misplaced a memory. "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

7 " Eli was a scene kid, the type that was just a little too into Panic! at the Disco to be trusted. "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

9 " Black olives. The answer to the eternal quandary of what if one were to combine snails and old tires into a foodstuff. The only way the creature could have punished her more brutally was if it had forced celery on her. "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

11 " 1973 "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

13 " It’s easy to assign blame to the American government for the global financial catastrophe we are witnessing unfold, and that is not wrong. Lies on this scale being uncovered were bound to cause mass existential crises, and what better way to exemplify mass existential crises in our neoliberal capitalist dystopia than a series of bank runs? "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

15 " You refuse to accept that you do not live in a just world. Sooner or later, you will have to. "

― Lindsay Ellis , Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)