Out Of The Silent Planet Quotes
"Every tree and blade of grass was dripping, and the road shone like a river."
"He was tall, but a little round-shouldered, about thirty-five to forty years of age, and dressed with that particular kind of shabbiness which marks a member of the intelligentsia on a holiday."
"The kindly old landlord on whom he had reckoned had been replaced by someone whom the barmaid referred to as 'the lady,' and the lady was apparently a British innkeeper of that orthodox school who regard guests as a nuisance."
"The noise of his own feet on the metalled road became irritating."
"He stood for a moment undecided, discouraged by the silence and the growing darkness."
"The moment he had done so, it seemed to him that he had not till now fully made up his mind."
"The adventure was too high, its circumstance too solemn, for any emotion save a severe delight."
"They were falling out of the heaven, into a world."
"He saw nothing but colours - colours that refused to form themselves into things."
"The purple stuff was vegetation: more precisely it was vegetables, vegetables about twice the height of English elms, but apparently soft and flimsy."
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."
"In him the spirit of the valley lives; and our young play at being hnéraki as soon as they can splash in the shallows."
"But mark this, Small One, that the two ends meet."
"The séroni know that sort of thing. But why should we have more young?"
"The hrossa know nothing except about poems and fish and making things grow out of the ground."
"It is not very likely if you had an Oyarsa that he would never speak to ours."
"For him Malacandra is only a place in the heavens; it is in the heavens that he and the others live."
"It was all there in that little disk - London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare."
"Ransom awoke next morning with the vague feeling that a great weight had been taken off his mind."
"Nothing then remained to be afraid of in Malacandra except Oyarsa."
"The hrossa should not have sent you this way."
"If you died on the harandra they would have made a poem about the gallant hmân."
"I like the hrossa," said Ransom a little stiffly. "And I think the way they talk about death is the right way."
"They are right not to fear it, Ren-soom, but they do not seem to look at it reasonably."
"Smell on it as you have need, Small One," said the sorn.
"We thought it," said the sorn, "and the pfifltriggi made it."
"It was like riding an elephant at the zoo in boyhood - like riding on his father's back."
"A world is not made to last forever, much less a race; that is not Maleldil's way."
"The forests have become stone and only eldila can go among them."
"We still have such creatures in our world," said Ransom. "We call them birds."
"Your thought must be at the mercy of your blood."
"Now the island is all full of eldila," said the hross in a hushed voice.
"The shadow of the sorn, with Ransom's shadow on its shoulder, moved over the uneven rock unnaturally distinct."
"The landscape which he saw from his high, swaying post of observation was a solemn one."
"Love of our own kind is not the greatest of laws, but you, Oyarsa, have said it is a law."
"You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness."
"For you must be either mad or brave before it is ended."
"Watch those two bent ones. Be courageous. Fight them."
"The year we are now in...has long been prophesied as a year of stirrings and high changes."
"It was madness to increase their scanty rations of water: madness even to consume air in discussing the question."
"Our only chance was to publish in the form of fiction what would certainly not be listened to as fact."
"What we need for the moment is not so much a body of belief as a body of people familiarized with certain ideas."
"No parts of this universal frame are less to be called solitaire than those which the vulgar esteem most solitaire."