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Quotes from Ventus — Karl Schroeder

born 1962 Canada

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11 quotes

The richest billionaire has to realize that the gods next door take no more notice of him than he would a bug.

Ventus (2000)

“Something’s wrong.”
Axel shrugged. “That statement probably applies to every second I’ve spent on this blasted world.”

Ventus (2000)

“All sound is music,” he had said, “and there is no place without sound.”

Ventus (2000)

Her own sincerity returned to her now like the remembrance of a crime.

Ventus (2000)

She looked up at the towering wisdom and felt a sudden love for it—as if these books were family.

Ventus (2000)

Just because something is convincing, that does not make it true. It is merely convincing.

Ventus (2000)

She started threatening the stability of the ruling classes, at least in their own eyes. No ruler who does that ever stands for long.

Ventus (2000)

“It’s not that simple.”
“Ah! That phrase is Male for ‘I’m afraid to.’”

Ventus (2000)

“We’re all pretending; that’s what events like this are all about.”
“Why are we doing it at all?”
“To fit it. Better that we be there to be spoken to than absent to be spoken about.”

Ventus (2000)

When she looked around, she saw the same expression of mindless fear in the eyes of the men with her. They were all in the same boat—carried forward by habits of training, minds blank with fear hence too stupid to sensibly turn and run. It was this stupor of fear that would later be counted as courage.

Ventus (2000)

“Humans become violent when they feel their interest are threatened.”
Galas scowled. “They were never threatened! Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as ‘policy.’”

Ventus (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Schroeder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.