A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
Tag: Quotes from The Three-Body Problem book
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