Ada Palmer Quotes

#1. Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?

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#2. Have you never watched a death, reader? In slow cases like blood loss it is not so much a moment as a stretch of ambiguity - one breath leaves and you wait uncertain for the next: was that the last? One more? Two more? A

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#3. Nothing under Providence is ever certain until an agent goes and tries and makes it so.

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#4. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place.

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#5. We all imagine happy endings to such books, pick out the page, the paragraph, in which we would step in and pluck the innocents to safety.

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#6. Books, even made-up stories, can't all have happy endings because they reflect the real world, and the real world isn't always happy.

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#7. understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger's powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.

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#8. Observe, Chagatai, the protagonist of every work of fiction is Humanity, and the antagonist is God.

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#9. On a scale of one to pissed I'd rate them pissed.

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#10. A constellation of Utopians is a group which only seems a group to us because we seek familiar institutions in their government, as we use the shapes of beasts and heroes to make false sense of the sea of stars.

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#11. It doesn't take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an 'us' and a 'them.' And a spark.

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#12. Is it not miraculous, reader, the power of the mind to believe and not believe at once?

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#13. My universe does not have time," the foreign God replied. "I find it cruel, like death and distance and misunderstanding, barriers separating that which would rather be whole. I

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#14. Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world's Mom she said, "Sure.

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#15. I am a Humanist because I believe in heroes, that history is driven by those individuals with fire enough to change the world.

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