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The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2) QUOTES

The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2) QUOTES

1 " Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

2 " the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

3 " A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

4 " A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It’s filled with people. And you know how people are. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

5 " I was just talking about you,” Cardenia said, coming up to him. “To your imaginary friends, I see.” “They’re not imaginary. They’re just not real.” “Very subtle distinction. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

6 " Don’t bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight, "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

7 " Hey, you know what, basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not actually all that smart, now, is it. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

8 " Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

9 " The plan is not the goal. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

10 " You have doubted me. Doubt me no longer. You have come to destroy me. I am not destroyed. You have come to burn me. I am the consuming fire. You will feel what it is to burn. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

11 " Lenson Ornill took in Grayland II’s words, their intent and meaning, what they boded for the church as he understood it, his faith as he had developed it, and the genesis of his engagement with both, trapped in that small cabin, struggling to breathe, all those many long years ago. And then, quite without meaning to, he uttered the words to encapsulate what he was feeling about each, in this one epochal moment.

“Well, fuck,” he said. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

12 " ...because she wasn’t some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

13 " It’s this: Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

14 " That’s the point of rumors. They’re not based on anything, so nothing is very effective against them. Truth is no defense, and the people fielding these rumors know it. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

15 " The short version was death, disease, despots and destruction. The longer version had kept him up wondering what the hell was wrong with people. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

16 " You suggested this to her, didn’t you.” “Why do you say that?” “Because I don’t know if you’ve ever met the Countess Nohamapetan, but she’s about as sentimental as a fucking alligator. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

17 " I’m saying you should come over.” “Maybe I’m avoiding you.” “You’re doing a fucking poor job of it, then, standing in my office. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

18 " You came to see me about something?” “Yes, ma’am. A lawyer is here.” “Toss him out a window.” “Her, actually, I think.” “So toss her out, then. Equally defenestratable. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

19 " Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get to it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

20 " It’s this: Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. You have doubts because it makes sense for you to have doubts. Just like it made sense for me to have doubts. But remember the plan is not the goal. What is your goal?” “To save as many lives as possible, through every means possible.” “Be confident in that, and everything else will follow.” “Thank you,” Cardenia said, after a minute. “What you said about confidence makes sense to me.” “You’re welcome,” Rachela I said. “I read it in a book once. "

― John Scalzi , The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)