“The gods, he knows now, will not help mankind. If they even exist—which he is no longer certain of—it is clear they do not care what happens. Perhaps they will even applaud when the last monuments of the Second Age… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“He’d once had to fight off a pack of ghouls in below-zero weather with nothing on but a pair of socks, and it wasn’t… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another a potential… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The more I think about it, the more it frightens me." "So why are you getting involved?" He shut his eyes. "So I can… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant). — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It struck Hsing suddenly that Masada didn't even understand the nature of his own genius. To him the patterns of thought and motive that… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things, trivial things,… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Fear would come in time, no doubt, but that did not mean she had to issue it a formal invitation.” — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices,… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
