Julian May Quotations
Julian May (born 1931-07-10) is an American science fiction writer, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu books.
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- Isn’t Biblical Eden an ambivalent symbol? It seems to me that the myth simply show us that self-awareness and intelligence are perilous. And they can be deadly. But consider the alternative to the Tree of Knowledge. Would anyone want innocence at such a price? Not me.
- The Many-Colored Land (Del Rey, 1990), ISBN 0-345-32444-7, p. 48
- There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There’s only sex at first sight.
- The Many-Colored Land (Del Rey, 1990), ISBN 0-345-32444-7, p. 63
- Summer fog. It leached all color and substance from the world, leaving only grays. Lead gray tombstone gray cobweb gray ash gray snot gray dust gray corpse gray. It was unheard-of that there be fog at this time of the year, late August. So it had to be another portent — as dire a one as the death of the One-Handed Warrior. There were many who said that the fog had its origin in the supercooled ashes of the hero: each molecule of his scattered body accreting water vapor, each tiny relic drawing to itself the air's own tears to fashion this wide-spreading shroud over the Many-Colored Land.
- The Adversary (Houghton Mifflin, 1984), ISBN 0-395-34410-7, p. 19 (opening lines of chapter 1)
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