12 quotes
Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
Maybe he's growing up.
Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
The others are even more likely to obey their god.
Which is?
It dangles between their legs.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
I interpreted all you did as weakness — but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.
So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)