Edge of Infinity Quotes

“Because Earth is like – it’s our parents’ house, and near-Earth is our first crappy apartment, and somewhere out there is New York City,”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity

“Lucy glanced at him, sidelong. “Mr. Peretz, do I look any older now?” Pitar busied himself with the links of the necklace. He knew what he was hearing. One of those notorious female jabs that made male life so hazardous. This provocation had no proper answer. To say “no” was to accuse Lucy of still being a callow girl of seventeen. This meant that ten years of their marriage were capped with an insult. But to reply “yes” to Lucy, was to state that she had, yes, visibly aged – what a crass mis-step that would be! Lucy would swiftly demand to know what dark threat had wilted her beauty. Arsenical rock-dust fever? A vitamin imbalance in her skin?”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity

“I’m glad that you’re happy, Mr. Peretz.” Pitar said nothing. He recognised one of those passive, yet aggressive remarks that women deployed for advantage. Whenever women said the opposite of what they so clearly wanted to say, hell was at hand.”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity

“That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity

“When your parents die, you finally take full possession of your life, and wonder how much of it has been shaped by conscious decision, and how much by inheritance in all its forms.”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity

“He’s sorry that he won’t be able to see Caitlin one more time. To tell her goodbye and that he loves her. He’s sorry he won’t get to see the consequences of his drive. Even through the screaming pain, a calmness and euphoria start to wash over him. It’s always been like this, he thinks. From when Moses saw the promised land that he could never enter, people have been on their deathbeds just wanting to see what happens next. He wonders if that’s what makes the promised land holy: that you can see it but you can’t quite reach it. The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction. It”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity

“The more rules you impose on a creative intelligence, of course, the fewer problems it can solve, so it was reckoned that it would be too much of a restriction on their creative ability to directly implant a commandment against trying to make sense out of their human masters.”
― Jonathan Strahan, Edge of Infinity