A lion among men Quotes

“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.”

“Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!”

“The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both.”

“We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...”

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.”

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”

“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”

“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

“Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.”