Because, you see, everything you know about the way this universe works is correct—except for the little problem that this isn’t the only universe we have to worry about. Information can leak between one universe and another. And in a vanishingly small number of the other universes there are things that listen, and talk back—see Al-Hazred, Nietzsche, Lovecraft, Poe, et cetera. The many-angled ones, as they say, live at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set, except when a suitable incantation in the platonic realm of mathematics—computerised or otherwise—draws them forth. (And you thought running that fractal screen-saver was good for your computer?)
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MONTGOMERY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we... LYSSA DANEHY DEHART When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life is the gift, itself. And any other additions, are the blessings! FLOYD WILLIAMS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely,... JOHN WYNDHAM It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise... ALEX FILIPPENKO Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer... CARL SAGAN Randomness is the name we give to the ordered processes of the universe we don't understand. JIM GENOVESE The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W... SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it ag... MARCUS DU SAUTOY We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... 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Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Try this: Wake up and say thank you to the universe for all the good things you have in your li... AVINA CELESTE You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the u... GORDON PARKS Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evi... STEPHEN HAWKING First you need only look: Notice and honor the radiance of Everything about you... Play in this univ... ANNE HILLMAN The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that the... JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. I... Q Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with gre... JOHNNY RICH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust... CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a... CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. CHARLES KINGSLEY I could never hate anyone I knew. CHARLES LAMB Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth... CHARLES DANCE By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more... CHARLES SAATCHI Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... CHARLES WOLFE I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos... CHARLES KIMBROUGH A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any... CHARLES TUPPER My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom... CHARLES KELLEY I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w... CHARLES DICKENS We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... CHARLES PEGUY We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ... CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ... CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work. CHARLES WESLEY Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. CHARLES READE The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th... CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is... CHARLES HUGHES Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w... CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. CHARLES DICKENS