War in Heaven
by David Zindell
- That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die. (p207)
- "Eternity and pain, pain and eternity -- they are the only two things of which the universe is made." (p173)
- The nerves are the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god. (p175)
- The elite of the universal religions have always substituted belief in the Infinite for the experience of it. We all need God -- but only in small and measured doses. Who can look upon the burning bush and not be destroyed in its flames? Who can bear the heaven and hell of each moment blazing in time? Who can shine like a star? And so, for all but a few of the manswarm, the rare ones who are truly human, it is better to glimpse such a miracle through a dark glass or to grasp it through words only. (p476)
- In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center. (p537)
- We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being. (p599)
- You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn. (p634)
