# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn

> “What happens happens,” continued the Resiler, “and cannot be made to unhappen. We are the equations; we cannot deny the algebra of the universe or the result it brings us. Die peacefully or in hysterics, with grace or with despair; it matters not. Prepare or ignore; it matters not. Very little matters very much and almost nothing matters greatly.”

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Feersum Endjinn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn.md)
- Page: 132
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Feersum_Endjinn_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/what-happens-happens

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> “Even though we thought ourselves by now inured to the thoroughly reckless nature of our opponents, we have been profoundly shocked and disappointed to discover the completely irresponsible and utterly senseless depths—or should I say heights?”—the ambassadorial emissary showed his teeth and glanced around his appropriately appreciative team—“to which our previously at least ostensibly esteemed adversaries have been prepared to stoop to in their understandably increasingly desperate attempts to secure a victory in this outrageously prosecuted, thoroughly unfortunate and—on our part—wholly unprovoked dispute.”

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/even-though-we-thought.md)

> “Want to bet on it?”
>
> “Thank you, no. I believe gambling to be a pastime for the weak-minded.”

p. 171 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/want-to-bet.md)

> Itz a very strainje feelin wakin up alive when u wer fooly expectin 2 b ded.

p. 303 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/itz-a-very.md)