"It’s quite a library, anyway, I’ve begun to think of it as more graveyard than library. End of the line, you know. Where book-of-the-month club comes to die."
"They thought they were so different, Flame and Ice. Enemies always do. The Soviets and the West, they were the same. They looked at each other and saw monsters; they looked at themselves and saw men."
"The police who came to the Green Star Lounge wanted to interview her about what had happened, but she put on the ‘I’m-an-unhinged-Zealot’ act, flying spittle and all, and they left her alone pretty quickly."
"Rilpor will belong to Blood again and, after it has fallen, all the world will know my wrath."
Transformation (Transcendental Trilogy #3) by James Edwin Gunn
20 June 2017
"The invasion began a million or more long-cycles ago, but the galaxy is bigger than minds can encompass, and information crawls across interstellar space if it moves at all. The Galactic Federation was slow to recognize the nature of the danger."
"To sleepwalk is to be inhabited, yes, but not by something else, so much. What you’re inhabited by, what’s kicking one foot in front of the other, it’s yourself."
"The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals?"
"No one will hurt us. This is the most bullshit advice adults ever give. There’s so much that will hurt us; it’s how we take care of ourselves afterward that matters. The aftercare."
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