13 quotes
It’s hard to talk like a human being when one hasn’t been treated like one for years!
Singer from the Sea (1999)
He blunders about like an ape in an apiary, infuriating the inhabitants and missing all the sweetness!
Singer from the Sea (1999)
The poor are like foxes: they need intelligence in order to survive. The rich, however, have power; they don’t need good sense.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
Despite his concern, he was not so out of control as to forget that a frantic man is a careless man, a lesson every soldier learns soon or dies wishing he had learned sooner.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
Perhaps my cynicism comes in good time. Better I have it early than too late.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
An intelligent woman herself, the Duchess had overestimated the Marshal’s intelligence. Not an ambitious woman, she had underestimated his ambition. So are many misread by other’s lights.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
“Thirst makes any wine drinkable…”
“…And greed makes any crime thinkable.”
Singer from the Sea (1999)
I know you want me to believe all this, but it seems little different from the religious stories we learned in school, esoteric and relatively pointless.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
“So the Glass Master story is real?”
“Oh, yes, my dear. The story is real. When you must lie, my dear, lie as little as possible. That way you’ll have the least to remember.”
Singer from the Sea (1999)
“I’ve met people like him.” Garth nodded sagely. “Men of customary inaction who can be spurred to sporadic excess. Such men often start ill-planned projects that they lack either energy to complete or the wit to abandon.”
Singer from the Sea (1999)
You reacted to stop the Mahahmbi killing your women, but you did nothing about their killing other women. It’s clear you could have done something. You are numerous enough that you could have killed the Mahahmbi who came out into the desert to perform those rituals!
Singer from the Sea (1999)
“You don’t like him?” asked Aufors, wondering whether the man had gone mad on the job or been hired because he was mad enough for the job. There were jobs where madness was an asset. The military was full of them.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
No one ever has to believe! The universe is, it does not require belief. Do you think it will stop existing if you do not believe? Do you think far galaxies will harbor resentment against you if you do not believe? Do you resent the ant who does not look up and admire you? Never!
Singer from the Sea (1999)