
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)

Luo Ji couldn’t shake a certain discomfort, like he had swallowed a fly.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
“You mean, ‘If I don’t go to hell, who will?’*5 Is that it?”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
seem to remember a line Yang Wen-li said in Legend of the Galactic Heroes:*11 ‘In
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
The universe had once been bright, too. For a short time after the big bang, all matter existed in the form of light, and only after the universe turned to burnt ash did heavier elements precipitate out of the darkness and form planets and life. Darkness was the mother of life and of civilization.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover.