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The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.
The Ginger Star (1974)
“Will it always stay like this?”
“Nothing,” said Hostetter, “ever stays always like anything.”
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.
The Ginger Star (1974)
“Better to make haste slowly than not at all,” said Amnir sententiously.
The Ginger Star (1974)
The Thyrans came on, as merciless as time.
The Ginger Star (1974)
Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.
The Ginger Star (1974)
With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.
The Ginger Star (1974)
No matter which way I go I know now that I will never have peace.
For peace is certainty, and there is no certainty but death.
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
The Ginger Star (1974)
“Was he trying to frighten you?”
“I don’t think so,” said Len. “I think he was just telling me the truth.”
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
“I grew up with the idea of it,” said Hostetter. “Nobody ever taught me that it was evil or forbidden, or that God had put a curse on it, and that’s the difference.”
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.
The Ginger Star (1974)
There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.
The Ginger Star (1974)
He could hear Pa’s voice saying, “A man’s religion, his sect, is his own affair. But those people have no religion or sect. They’re a mob, with a mob’s fear and cruelty, and with half-crazy, cunning men stirring them up against others.”
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.
The Ginger Star (1974)
I am finished with running. Now I will stop and choose my way.
Sooner or later a man has to stop and choose his way, not out of the ways he would like there to be, or the ways there ought to be, but out of the ways there are.
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
“I guess we’ve got a lot to learn.”
“Quite a lot,” said Hostetter thoughtfully. “It won’t be easy, either. So many things will jar against every belief you’ve grown up with, and I don’t care how you scoff at it, some of it sticks to you.”
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Luke! Don't give in to hate. That leads to the dark side.