Catspaw
A source page for quotes linked to Joan D. Vinge.
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Source: The Snow Queen
Source: Dreamfall
Source: Catspaw
“Laws were made by men, and men made mistakes.”
Source: 47 Ronin
Source: The Snow Queen
“Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.”
“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.”
“Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.”
“What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.”
“All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.”
“A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”
Source: Catspaw
“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”
“It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.”
“Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.”
Source: Catspaw
Source: Psion
“For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.”
“Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.”
“Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.”
“Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.”