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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
About Ellimist
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point until the By Ellimist section.
- “What could be more relaxing than going on a hike with a couple of fugitive space goblins while being hunted by giant worms and probably Visser Three himself? And all the time knowing we’re following the plan of an all-powerful galactic pain-in-the-butt who gets us to do all his dirty work?” ~ Marco, Book #13 pg. 113
By Ellimist
- “In all the universe, no greater beauty. In a thousand, thousand worlds, no greater art than this.” ~ Book #7 pg. 73 (75)
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease beyond this point.
- “Tobias, you are a beginning. You are a point on which an entire time line may turn.” ~ Book #13 pg. 89
- “But do you know what you want, Tobias? And if you get it, will you still know?” ~ Book #13 pg. 90
- “If the Yeerks had any sense of humor at all they wouldn’t be the scourge they are.” ~ Book #26 pg. 13
- “Not on the past but on the future fix your range finder.” ~ EC pg. 24
- “There are sims and then there is reality. And let me say that no sim, no matter how good, matches reality. The problem with a sim is that you know it’s a sim. Reality on the other hand, well, it’s real.” ~ EC pg. 46
- “You needed love to win at the game of music.” ~ EC pg. 127
- “How could anyone despair while music was being played?” ~ EC pg. 127
- “I’m a loser. They called me a brilliant loser, all winners, all winners but me: loser. But only a loser can sing the azures. Only a loser truly sees.” ~ EC pg. 128
- “A Ketran—any sentient species—is only his free will. Freedom and sentience are inseparable. The captive, programmed mind is no mind at all.” ~ EC pg. 146
- “Life was everywhere. A thousand thousand planets teeming with life.” ~ EC pg. 156
- “I had watched entire worlds die. I had lost my own race. How could I care so much about this one small, unsteady creature? How could her death cut me so deeply?” ~ EC pg. 177
- “Life was winning the race against death. Good was outrunning evil.” ~ EC pg. 181
- “Who is to say who is piece and who is player? How often had I wondered whether I myself was just a game piece in a still larger game whose players laughed at my pretensions?” ~ EC pg. 199
- “You are...you were...a happy accident. An unwitting contribution from the human race to its own survival.” ~ EC pg. 199
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