A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
Tag: Quotes by Cixin Liu
I’m a simple man without a …
I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass. Naturally, I don’t know how to make my bosses like me.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy …
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
Look at them, the bugs. Humans …
Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a flyswatter under it … this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
In China, any idea that dared …
In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
By the time you’re my age …
By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
It’s not important where we go …
It’s not important where we go. I think it’s a wonderful feeling just being on a journey.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
Real shrewdness means not letting any …
Real shrewdness means not letting any shrewdness show. It’s not like in the movies. The truly astute don’t sit in the shadows all day striking a pose. They don’t show off that they’re using their brains. They look all carefree and innocent. Some of them are tacky and mawkish, others careless and unserious. What’s critical is not to let others think you’re a person of interest. Let them look down on you or dismiss you and they won’t feel you’re an obstacle. You’re just a broom in the corner. The pinnacle of this is to make them not notice you at all, as if you don’t exist until the moment right before they die at your hands.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
The eyes of ordinary people were …
The eyes of ordinary people were the best reflection of the level of civilization in a time and place.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu