Here are my few favorite quotes from Altered Carbon:
- “The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
- “If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”
- “Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.”
- “A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.”
- “For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self-knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.”
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