Singer From The Sea

Quotes

1. He blunders about like an ape in an apiary, infuriating the inhabitants and missing all the sweetness!

   p. 176

2. 

   “I’ve met people like him.” Garth nodded sagely. “Men of customary inaction who can be spurred to sporadic excess. Such men often start ill-planned projects that they lack either energy to complete or the wit to abandon.”

   p. 257

3. 

   “And all this time that I’ve worried over the state of my soul, I shouldn’t have bothered,” Genevieve said angrily.

   p. 369

4. 

   I know you want me to believe all this, but it seems little different from the religious stories we learned in school, esoteric and relatively pointless.

   p. 370

5. 

   An intelligent woman herself, the Duchess had overestimated the Marshal’s intelligence. Not an ambitious woman, she had underestimated his ambition. So are many misread by other’s lights.

   p. 174

6. 

   You felt something huge and marvelous of which you are part, and in the moments you described, you forgot yourself for you were one with your world and with the sky above it, and even the stars looking down. There is nothing larger or more wonderful than that. Still, there are those who would prefer self. They will accept any belief, no matter how foolish, if it guarantees them personal immortality. I know people like that. But there are others who know themselves well enough to realize how limiting that is.

   p. 382

7. 

   Perhaps my cynicism comes in good time. Better I have it early than too late.

   p. 139

8. 

   “Thirst makes any wine drinkable…”

   “…And greed makes any crime thinkable.”

   p. 109

9. 

   “But how is it you know all this about how large the ocean is? I thought you girls were limited to pretty chatter and the economics of housekeeping. I didn’t know you learned geography.”

   “We don’t,” she said, somewhat shamefaced. “But we learned to read, and once one can read, one can learn anything.”

   p. 272

10. 

    “So the Glass Master story is real?”

    “Oh, yes, my dear. The story is real. When you must lie, my dear, lie as little as possible. That way you’ll have the least to remember.”

    p. 181

11. 

    Despite his concern, he was not so out of control as to forget that a frantic man is a careless man, a lesson every soldier learns soon or dies wishing he had learned sooner.

    p. 112

12. 

    “By now, the Mahahmbi think we’ve always been around. They already believed they were God’s favorites when they came here, so it wasn’t hard to persuade them God created slaves for them.”

    Melanie snarled, “And if you believe you’re God’s favorite, killing a few women and children doesn’t bother you…”

    p. 366

13. 

    It’s hard to talk like a human being when one hasn’t been treated like one for years!

    p. 106

14. 

    No one ever has to believe! The universe is, it does not require belief. Do you think it will stop existing if you do not believe? Do you think far galaxies will harbor resentment against you if you do not believe? Do you resent the ant who does not look up and admire you? Never!

    p. 382

15. 

    You reacted to stop the Mahahmbi killing your women, but you did nothing about their killing other women. It’s clear you could have done something. You are numerous enough that you could have killed the Mahahmbi who came out into the desert to perform those rituals!

    p. 391

16. 

    “You don’t like him?” asked Aufors, wondering whether the man had gone mad on the job or been hired because he was mad enough for the job. There were jobs where madness was an asset. The military was full of them.

    p. 105

17. 

    The poor are like foxes: they need intelligence in order to survive. The rich, however, have power; they don’t need good sense.

    p. 48

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