Archive for sci-fi

2 Yellow highlight | Page: 88 Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It’s just easier to handle those with emotions. Yellow highlight | Page: 247 Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless...

1 Yellow highlight | Page: 141 As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent. Never let pride or laziness prevent you from learning, improving

1 Yellow highlight | Location: 3,174 Each night she returns home, exhausted from the abuse that Kannika metes out, and falls into dreams of a place where New People dwell in safety, without patrons or masters.

5 Yellow highlight | Location: 4,586 ‘Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will...

2 Yellow highlight | Location: 1,466 “The Haunted Asteroid”: Yellow highlight | Location: 3,067 Even knowing this, more than once Norton felt an almost irresistible urge to laser his way into one of the pillars so that he could have something material to take back to Earth. It was the same impulse, he thought wryly, that would prompt...