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“Fear and superstition always follow the unseen, the unknown, the whispered of.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 34, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 312)

Fear

“The people of Earth did not understand that humans were part of a worldwide organism, that something as tiny as a cluster of bacteria could mean the difference between life and death for every living thing, the difference between a functioning, flourishing planet and a desolation.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 32, “I Am Gretamara/On Mars” (p. 272)

People , Understanding , Life , Death

“Anything interesting in the paper? Some tragedy, some comedy, nothing that’ll matter in a hundred years.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 28, “I Am Margaret/On Tercis” (p. 238)

“Great wealth breeds great arrogance.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 14, “I Am Margaret/On Earth” (p. 115)

Wealth

“A court dedicated to pure justice, one that can overrule the law! They didn’t even have one of those back on old Earth!”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 10, “I Am Wilvia/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 69)

Justice , Law

“I have discovered something else, Throsset of Dowes. And that is that men give women jewels when they have absolutely no idea what might please them and are not willing to take time to think about it.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The True Game, The Search of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 165)

Time , Thinking , Idea , Women

“I’ll tell you, nothing is so dangerous as ambition in a man who cares not who stands in his way.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The True Game, The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 3 (p. 48)

Way

“There is a kind of animal frenzy can be whipped up sometimes among fools and children, often using religion as an excuse for it. When it happens, it is wise to be elsewhere.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The True Game, The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 3 (p. 45)

Religion , Children , Fools , Animals

“If one may not sleep and one may not act, then what use is there sitting about?”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The True Game, The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 8 (pp. 150-151)

Sleep

“There are those who must find fault somewhere, among the dead if they cannot find enough among the living.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The True Game, The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (1985), Chapter 2 (p. 31)

Dead