Robin Sloan Quotes

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Love is not just about love for your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, or wife. Love, for me, is the love for my work, family, and even friends. The emotion is very strong. It comes with a lot of responsibilities.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

I would have been here sooner but Lysander held me prisoner in our cloud," Bianka said with a grin. "He wouldn't relent until Sabin gave the ok. Which I still don't understand and will continue to punish him for until he spills. Secrets or guts, I don't care which.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.

I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?