10 quotes
I do not like to concatenate implausibilities.
Resurgence (2002)
You crazy? You’ve got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.
Resurgence (2002)
When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.
Resurgence (2002)
Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.
Resurgence (2002)
When you had little or no information, it was unreasonable to have any expectations. But somehow you did, even if they were often wrong.
Resurgence (2002)
As you will one day discover, a leader is not a leader because of the way that he or she behaves. He is a leader only because of the way that he is treated by others.
Resurgence (2002)
If you wanted to get yourself killed, there was no better way than to think you knew all the tricks. It took experience to make you realize that the universe could always pull another one out of the bag and throw it at you.
Resurgence (2002)
Somehow he felt more resigned than surprised. Things had been going far too well for far too long. Just when you thought you had the universe by the tail, it turned round and bit you on the ass.
Resurgence (2002)
“That’s a whole lot of ifs you got there.”
“True. But which would you prefer, Louis Nenda?” Atvar H’sial rose from her crouched position. “A substantial set of contingent possibilities, or a single unpleasant certainty?”
Resurgence (2002)
Arabella Lund had been full of “rules,” and one of her most basic was this: Anything in the universe can happen once, or at least it can seem to happen. If you want to obtain information, make it happen again.
Resurgence (2002)