They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.
Stichwörter: culture cynical paranoid dialogue
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
Iain M. BanksIt gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
She laughed. 'Really?'
The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.
Stichwörter: regret
What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it.
He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.
Iain M. BanksAny theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
Iain M. BanksStichwörter: philosophy solipsism
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
Iain M. BanksStichwörter: life-experience
His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.
Iain M. BanksStichwörter: melancholy
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you.
If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
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