Lawrence M. Schoen Quotes

There’s a part of you that insists reality follow the same parameters it always has, even here. That attachment to the way things work in the living world precludes this kind of manipulation. I, on the other hand, had the privilege of spending a good portion of time, when I was alive, in the paroxysms of my own insanity. Rather liberating, in its own way.

So you're saying, people not only may not want to hear a thing that's true, that sometimes they make sure other people can't either?"
"Yeah. Not all people, and not all the time, but yeah.

Besides, prophecies are tricky stuff. It's only after that people recognize them as important. At the time they're spoken most people don't want to hear about them."
"Really? But aren't they truth?"
"Especially then. Truth is tough."
"Why? I mean, it's the truth. It just is."
"I think that's so, in the abstract, but none of us get to really know the abstract. We only know what we think.

She hated politics and she had no patience for the ultra-serious, wide-eyed dreamers who wanted to change your world whether you wanted to live with those changes or not.

I mean, sure, like all prophecy the wording is vague.

I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do.