# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Inversions

> But there we are. Some things never do make perfect sense. There must be some explanation, and it is perhaps a little like the Doctrine of the Perfect Partner. We must be content to know that she exists, somewhere in the world, and try not to care overmuch that we will probably never meet her.

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Inversions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions.md)
- Page: 132
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Inversions_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/but-there-we-are

## More from this book

> Pain, or even just discomfort, is like the warning sent by a frontier guard, sir. You are free to choose to ignore it, but you should not be unduly surprised if you are subsequently over-run by invaders.

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/pain-or-even.md)

> Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place—and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all—so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/truth-i-have.md)

> We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others.

p. 197 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/we-only-become.md)