“Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...” RegretShameStupidityMistakesCheatingTime TravelGalaxiesJernau Morat Gurgeh Book:The Player of Games Source: The Player of Games
“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not yet fully woken up, and events within its sleek hull still moved to another, slower tempo, made half of dreams.” SilenceDreamsWakingWarshipJernau Morat GurgehCenturesMade Half Of DreamsMothballed Book:The Player of Games Source: The Player of Games