Sheri S. Tepper

Quotes

1. As with other peoples who had focused their lives upon wrongs in the past and heaven in the future, Voorstod made an everlasting hell of the present.

   p. 84

2. 

   “How did you know we were Voorstoders?” he asked in a silken voice.

   “You said ‘Lord knows,’” the man replied. “Voorstoders say that. I do a bit of reading in the Archives, bit of a hobby with me. Like to read about those old religions. That Lord-this, Lord-that kind of talk belongs to the old tribal religions, doesn’t it?” Old and outworn, said his voice. Old and outworn and suspect.

   p. 193

3. 

   We have a saying, we Gharm. A man who claims to carry the truth, carries an empty sack.

   p. 408

4. 

   To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which.

   p. 7

5. 

   Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better!

   p. 338

6. 

   Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!

   p. 446

7. 

   I’m trying to decide whether we can afford to be merciful. The Arbai were merciful, but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil.

   p. 358

8. 

   She was trying to feel philosophical about dying, not managing it, trying not to be frightened, and not managing that, either.

   p. 388

9. 

   All kids think some other family is perfect.

   p. 103

10. 

    Too good is good for nothing.

    p. 355

11. 

    They haven’t learned that being penitent sometimes does no good at all.

    p. 374

12. 

    He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.

    p. 447