Frases de Kage Baker (79 citações, página 2)

“You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.”

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Kage Baker livro The Graveyard Game

Fonte: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 27, “Avalon” (p. 240)

“He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.
Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?”

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Kage Baker livro The Sons of Heaven

Fonte: The Sons of Heaven (2007), Chapter 32, Section 1 “Gray’s Inn Road” (p. 391)

“Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.”

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Kage Baker livro The Life of the World to Come

Fonte: The Life of the World to Come (2004), Chapter 11, “Christmas Meeting” (p. 181)

““There,” Joseph said. “There’s your answer.”
“It’s not an answer, little man. It’s many, many more questions.””

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Kage Baker livro The Graveyard Game

Fonte: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 15, “Fez (I)” (p. 145)

“As it had been explained to David long ago, genetic diversity was very, very important. The more diverse the human gene pool was, the better were humanity’s chances of adapting to any new and unexpected conditions it might encounter, now that it was beginning to push outward into Space, to say nothing of surviving any unexpected natural disasters such as polar shifts or meteor strikes on Earth.
Unfortunately, humanity had been both unlucky and foolish. Out of the dozens of races that had once lived in the world, only a handful had survived into modern times. Some ancient races had been rendered extinct by war. Some had been simply crowded out, retreating into remote regions and forced to breed amongst themselves, which killed them off with lethal recessives.
That had been the bad luck. The foolishness had come when people began to form theories about the process of Evolution. They got it all wrong: most people interpreted the concept of “survival of the fittest” to mean they ought to narrow the gene pool, reducing it in size. So this was done, in genocidal wars and eugenics programs, and how surprised people were when lethal recessives began to occur more frequently! To say nothing of the populations who died in droves when diseases swept through them, because they were all so genetically similar there were none among them with natural immunities.”

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Kage Baker livro The Machine's Child

Fonte: The Machine's Child (2006), Chapter 29, “Still Another Morning in 500,000 BCE” (p. 330)

““Oh, that’s childish,” says Nicholas in disgust.
“Well, so what?” says Alec. “We happen to be children.””

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Kage Baker livro The Sons of Heaven

Fonte: The Sons of Heaven (2007), Chapter 22, Section 1 “Child Care in the Cyborg Family, Volume Six: The Challenge of Psychological Development” (p. 268)

““Edward has a purpose for us. Ruling the world, I assume.”
“He can’t,” says Alec, aghast. “That’s what villains do!””

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Kage Baker livro The Sons of Heaven

Fonte: The Sons of Heaven (2007), Chapter 23, Section 1 “Child Care in the Cyborg Family, Volume Ten: The Awkward Years” (p. 276)

““Why did I never understand…”
“That it was vanity?” I said.
“Mm, but so much worse… Delusion. Because, the thing is—human progress begins, not with one lone man with a weapon, however heroic. Nor with subtle governments, be they never so altruistic. It begins with a man and his wife in bed… and… how could I ever hope to govern humanity, without having been even that human?”

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Kage Baker livro The Sons of Heaven

Fonte: The Sons of Heaven (2007), Chapter 12, Section 1 “Three Months: Extract from the Journal of the Botanist Mendoza: Monsters and Ice Cream” (p. 156)