Sheri S. Tepper

Quotes

• “(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow he...”
• “He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law...”
• “As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the num...”
• “I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..."...”
• “Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse...”
• “We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." ...”
• “Only fools insist upon life at any cost.... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where...”
• “I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting ...”
• “They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.....”
• “A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were per...”