Quotes from book

Nova

“Don’t go chattering to the stars if you’re going to do it with your eyes closed.”

“Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.”

“The inevitable is that unprepared for.”

“You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.”

“The captain is different too, Cyana. Before, the Roc flew under half a man, a man who’d only known victory. Now I’m a whole man. I know defeat as well.”

“What do you see, Captain?”
“Two boys with hands locked for a fight. You see how one is light and the other is dark? I see love against death, light against darkness, chaos against order. I see the clash of all opposites under…the sun. I see Prince and myself.”
“Which is which?”

“You know, Mouse, I envy the captain. He’s got a mission. And his obsession precludes all that wondering about what other people think of him.”

“Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.”

“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”

“Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.”

“There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.”