# The Ophiuchi Hotline

- Author: [John Varley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline

## Quotes

> This was a killer. Quite possibly a soldier, though Lilo was not expert in mental diseases.

p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/this-was-a-killer.md)

> If only she could convince them, perhaps she could convince herself.

p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/if-only-she.md)

> You've got to watch yourself when you get as old as I am. You have to try new things, sometimes for no better reason than that they’re new. Otherwise you rust.

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/youve-got-to-watch.md)

> But now she was fifty-seven, and suddenly ancient. Soon she would be dead. Dead. You can’t get any more ancient than that.

p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/but-now-she.md)

> She was a reader; there were many citizens who were not. The prevailing social explanation for illiteracy was that there were people who were temperamentally unsuited for reading—and indeed there were few callings in a computerized, video-saturated world that required literacy. Lilo accepted that, but had always had a feeling that most people never learned to read because they simply were not smart enough.

p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/she-was-a-reader.md)

> We’ve become a race of engineers. What we never seem to understand is that after it’s time to railroad, there’s time to build a beautiful railroad. The state of the art has advanced enough; we can afford to pay a small penalty in efficiency.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/weve-become-a-race.md)

> It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living.

p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/it-was-not.md)

> I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.

p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/i-found-that.md)