In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
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