Justina Robson

Quotes

• ““So, you’re saying you have no idea what this stuff is.” At last, something that sounded plausible.”
• “Delirium, dream, death—Three-D. What was the fourth?”
• “What’s the point of history, if it has nothing to say to the present?”
• “You could try and breed territoriality out of the bone, but like a bad fairy it popped up again and again in all sorts of guises and from all kinds of DNA. As long as there was plenty, then everyone was happy to pay culture its due, but as soon as there was trouble—bang, out came the demonization memes and, lo and behold, they were back to the Dark Ages faster than you could say “mattock.””
• “Life did what it did, purposelessly, and only humans strove to impose a meaning where no meaning was needed. She viewed herself as random flotsam upon the face of the deep. Without a religious foundation, she wasn’t bothered by any questions of an insult to God or the hubris of Prometheus that might have arisen.”
• “I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it’s my time.”

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