Quotes from Rogue Queen — L. Sprague de Camp
1907–2000 United States
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“Cold comfort,” said Bloch. “Like most oracular verse, full of vague ominous intimations of nothing in particular.”
Rogue Queen (1951)
I am sorry, my dear, but that is the best advice we can give you. If some irrational rule of your society prevents, so much the worse for your society.
Rogue Queen (1951)
It must be that Terran love of theirs. Remember the quicksand? Whatever troubles it may cause, that kind of love makes them run risks for each other they wouldn’t for anybody else.
Rogue Queen (1951)
I’ve been saying a special prayer to Eunmar; did you know I believe in the old gods? If you try hard enough, I’ve found, you can believe anything.
Rogue Queen (1951)
Antis, looking up from his fire-making to watch the flying fish, remarked, “That’s an omen of change.”
“What is?”
“When a flying fish circles withershins.”
“Oh, silly! You see omens in everything, and changes are always occurring.”
Rogue Queen (1951)
“From all I gather, love of individuals is more important among you than love of your Community. If that’s the case, how can your Communities be well run?”
“Mostly they aren’t,” said Bloch, relighting his pipe. “But we have a lot of fun.”
Rogue Queen (1951)
There must be something. No, nothing. But there must be, if she could only be clever enough to think of it. What, then? How do you know there is anything to think of? There simply must be. But that’s wretched logic; things don’t exist because you wish they did…
Rogue Queen (1951)