Nova

Quotes

1. Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.

   p. 116

2. 

   “I was born,” the Mouse said. “I must die. I am suffering. Help me. There, I just wrote your book for you.”

   p. 156

3. 

   There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

   p. 166

4. 

   The inevitable is that unprepared for.

   p. 204

5. 

   The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

   p. 169

6. 

   The captain is different too, Cyana. Before, the Roc flew under half a man, a man who’d only known victory. Now I’m a whole man. I know defeat as well.

   p. 142

7. 

   You know, Mouse, I envy the captain. He’s got a mission. And his obsession precludes all that wondering about what other people think of him.

   p. 158

8. 

   Don’t go chattering to the stars if you’re going to do it with your eyes closed.

   p. 197

9. 

   Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.

   p. 44

10. 

    Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.

    p. 26

11. 

    “What do you see, Captain?”

    “Two boys with hands locked for a fight. You see how one is light and the other is dark? I see love against death, light against darkness, chaos against order. I see the clash of all opposites under...the sun. I see Prince and myself.”

    “Which is which?”

    “I don’t know, Mouse.”

    p. 119

12. 

    You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.

    p. 36

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