The Snow Queen
Joan D. Vinge
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.”
“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”
“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”
“It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.”
“Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.”
“I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.”
“Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the difference.”
“Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown”
“Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.”
“All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.”
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Book Keywords:
status-quo, indifference, conservatism
