All Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
- It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the… All
- Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans. Accept
- Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. Confusing
- For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like… Actively
- Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging… All
- Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was… All
- Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them.… Atmosphere
- We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its… Biological
- Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul.… Every Time
- She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care. Care
- Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. Doubt
- Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna… Close
- I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of… Captured
- Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect… Battle
- They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you. Blame
- Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry. Angry
- She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia… Anything Like
- No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them.… All
- But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. Got Hold
- When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by. Alone
- The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders. Behind
- I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice. Battle
- It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers. Another Apart
- Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. Crisscrossing
- Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. Always Two