13 Quotes by Lydia Netzer

A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

There are three things that robots cannot do," wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote "Show preference without reason (LOVE)" and then "Doubt rational decisions (REGRET)" and finally "Trust data from a previously unreliable source (FORGIVE).

As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.

This is a love story about astronomy, he thought. Twin souls collide and love each other forever. And no one ever goes crazy. And no one ever dies. And the universe folds back on itself and clicks into place, and the pylons holding up the electrical wires are really trees. And the trees are really gods.

Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

Sometimes you just have to keep away from the things that are trying to kill you, even if they’re the same thing that gave birth to you. Sometimes those two things are the same, and their name is mother.

When you are sitting on a three-legged stool and you’ve kicked out all three legs, but you’re still sitting upright, must you assume that you’re so good, you levitate? Or must you assume that you were sitting on the ground all along?

It’s more like every electron in every atom in the universe paused, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its course, spinning backward, or the other way, which was the right way all along. And afterward, the universe was exactly the same, but infinitely more right.