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Constance (Constance #1) QUOTES

Constance (Constance #1) QUOTES

1 " Most of life is lived to be forgotten. That was the way of things, cruel though it felt when it was your life that would be lost. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

2 " The opening act came on stage and launched into their first number. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

3 " The gulf between witnessing hatred and being its object was as wide as the ocean. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

4 " She died—this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side. —“Vanished,” Emily Dickinson "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

5 " Why is it that the more I change, the more I need everything around me to stay the same? It’s a perverse design flaw in our species. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

6 " People can decide for themselves whether they want to adopt a new technology or not.” Butler snorted dismissively. “No, they absolutely cannot. People have always been too quick to adopt whatever appears to make their lives easier in the short term. Humans are very good at inventing solutions and very, very bad at anticipating consequences. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

7 " In this country, power doesn’t derive from defeating a threat; true power comes from the fear of the threat. And maintaining power requires a continuing threat. No one worries about causes that are already decided. When was the last time someone wrote a check to defeat prohibition? "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

8 " On the far side of the pond, a silver-haired white man in a terry-cloth robe struggled to fill out the client paperwork on his LFD. Con gave him points for trying. A lot of people over forty had a hard time with next-gen light-field devices and clung to their legacy smartphones rather than adapting. She watched him adjust the fit of his LFD, which rested behind the ear like an old-fashioned hearing aid and projected data to a floating point six inches in front of the user’s eyes. When that didn’t solve his problem, he reached out with both hands like he was trying to feel his way in the dark. It really wasn’t necessary. LFDs were paired to their users and would read hand movements from any position. Kids who had grown up with the technology were blindingly fast, all ten fingers working independently, hands fluttering at their sides. But for older users like the silver fox over there, the need to “touch” the screen was hard to break. The results could be hilariously uncoordinated. Exactly why kids mocked their parents as “zombs” for the way they flailed their arms in front of their faces. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

9 " Einstein should have spent more time investigating the uneven way that time passed in December, the supermassive black hole of the Gregorian calendar. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

10 " Slats in the broken roof threw piano keys of light and dark across the floor. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

11 " Humans are very good at inventing solutions and very, very bad at anticipating consequences. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

12 " But the luster of any tragedy eventually wore off. The narrative changed. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

13 " In this country, power doesn’t derive from defeating a threat; true power comes from the fear of the threat. And maintaining power requires a continuing threat. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

14 " He had become both one of her ghosts and one of her demons, and she felt suffocated by his memory. God, how she missed him. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

15 " In this country, power doesn’t derive from defeating a threat; true power comes from the fear of the threat. And maintaining power requires a continuing threat. No one worries about causes that are already decided. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

16 " Humans are very good at inventing solutions and very, very bad at anticipating consequences "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

17 " After the behemoth social networks had died off in the twenties—victims of changing legal and cultural privacy concerns—they’d been supplanted by self-managed private social networks. Designed by white-hat, open-source, anti-corporate coders, the new do-it-yourself PSNs were free, easy to set up, decentralized, and had no corporate overlords. Con had read somewhere that there were more than twenty billion private social networks worldwide interconnected in a complex latticework. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

18 " Money is easy to come by, you see, but genius . . . well, you can’t simply fundraise genius. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

19 " If you lived your life to be remembered when you were gone, you were wasting your time. "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)

20 " If you lived your life to be remembered when you were gone, "

― Matthew FitzSimmons , Constance (Constance #1)