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Lion had few doubts about his actions. As he had said on more than one occasion, “I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt.”
p. 162
“To us it does not seem that long ago, possibly because our children hear stories told around the fire of things which happened fifteen centuries back. Such stories carry an immediacy one does not get from books.…”
“Which is why some countries carry such old grudges,” offered Marianne. “What children learn at their grandmas’ knees they act upon as though it happened yesterday.”
He nodded gravely, even sadly. “Perhaps that is true. Those who have an oral tradition full of old wrongs and old revenge do seem to fight the same battles forever. If the Irish were not forever singing of their ancient wrongs—or writing poetry about it…well, we see the result in every morning’s newspapers.”
p. 67
“I was always willing to help you,” she replied, “as you would have known if you had stopped accusing me and listened.”
p. 171
We obey orders, and we don’t ask if the officer is crazy or not!
p. 75
Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.
p. 88
The difference between a true religion—and there are many which share aspects of truth—and a dangerous cult is only this: In the one the individual is freed to grow and live and learn; in the other the individual is subordinated to the will of a hierarchy, enslaved to the purposes of that hierarchy, forbidden to learn except what the cult would teach. You have only to look at the rules which govern the servants of a religion to know whether its god is God indeed, or devil!
p. 69
“Sometimes I despair, Ellat. Will I ever be able to surprise you?”
“Yes. If you’d listen to me, ever, it would surprise me enormously.”
p. 137
What kind of a universe would it be if we could not do small kindnesses for one another?
p. 123
“How did this happen?” she demanded from the world at large.
“Software,” the hardware consultant opined.
“Hardware,” the software support person snarled.
p. 51
“The answers to everything are in the books,” he said to her. “It is in knowing which books, of course, and where to look.”
p. 116
What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.
p. 67
“I do not like the thought of compulsion.”
He shook his head at me. “Not compulsion, Jinian. Information, more like. It is as though I had been given a map which showed both the good roads and the swamps. Is it compulsion to avoid the swamps if one knows they are there?”
p. 42
