Against a Dark Background
Iain M. Banks
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
“People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.”
“It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.”
“If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!”
“He might come in useful.' 'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.”
“We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.”
“I want you to destroy everything! she screamed. Every fucking thing! All the evil men and compliant women, all the armies and companies and cults and faiths and orders and every stupid fucker in them! All of them! EVERYTHING!”
“But if you’re God,” Sharrow said to Elson Roa, “why do you need the others?” “What others?” Roa said. Sharrow looked exasperated. “Oh, come on.” Elson Roa shrugged. “My apparences? They are the sign that my will is not yet strong enough to support my existence without extraneous help. I am working on this.”
“she willed that distant, ember memory to prevail against the leaching cold that made her teeth ache and her body shiver, and against the laws that ran the universe and the system and the world and every thing and body within it; the laws of decay, consumption, exhaustion and death.”
“law is no more than an abstraction of justice; an expression of a society’s political will and philosophical conceptions. Truth, right and justice are processes, not states. They are dynamic functions”
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Book Keywords:
monsters, unwanted, regret, broken-bones, usefulness, human-nature, leaders
