OR Quote 8: the reason behind it all

“’What is this water?’
‘It’s how we show pain or grief or suffering’
‘Ah! Ah! I have seen that water before! In the eyes of Libo and Pipo I saw that water!’
…’They didn’t know until this moment that Pipo and Libo were crying when they died’
…’Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.’
‘Human, tell your people not to grieve for what they did in ignorance’‘It was a terrible thing, it was our greatest gift.’" (Pg, 239-240; Ch. 14)

The purpose of this quote is to explain the reasoning behind an action of murder the piggies committed in the first chapter of the book. As it says… they did it to honor the 2 xenadors, however to anyone human, they would have seen it as murder (and did). This sheds a lot of light on whether the piggies are raman or varelse, and this makes it out to be raman (since the action had purpose and was not more or less random or savage.).

OR Quote 7: The hive queen?

“You could bring him here, but you don’t. Everything depends on you bringing him here. Rooter says the hive queen can’t give us her gifts unless he comes.” (Pg. 201; Ch. 13)

The purpose of this quote is forshadowing... it hints towards Andrew bringing the hive queen to the piggies, although this could be completly wrong... this is just what i took from it when i first read it.

OR Quote 6: Who's call is it anyway

“’I’m not the master, I-‘
‘That’s right, you’re not’
‘But Libo was my father, so of course I’m the’‘Zenador by blood right, is that it? So what am I by blood right? A drunken wife-beating cretin? Is that what you want me to be? A little copy of my paizinho?’” (Pg. 204; Ch. 13)

The purpose of this dispure it to get us thinking "who really IS in charge of the expeditions into the woods? who's the aprentice of who? they both have the same connections to the old and deseased Zenador; he was their father" of course they don't know that and this is why they are having this fight.

it adds a nice little trist tot he plot to think about on the side... i like it.

OR Quote 5: Jane

"And yet, compared to the human mind, even Jane’s lowest level of attention was exceptionally alert. Because ansible communication was instantaneous, her mental activities happened far faster than the speed of light. Events that she virtually ignored were monitored several times a second; she could notice ten million events in a second and still have nine-tenths of that second left to think about and do things that mattered to her. Compared to the speed at which the human brain was able to experience life, Jane had lived half a trillion human lifeyears since she came to be." (Pg. 174; Ch. 11)

Jane's a computer... if you didn't catch that...anywho the reason this quote is significant is because later it explains that those 9/10ths of a second left she spends observing Andrew wiggins through the crystal in his ear, and just before this, he had turned it off. later when he turns it back on, she ignores him... and i think i would too if i had to wait 50 thousand years to to be able to use 9/10ths of my brain again... (only a couple of hours in real-time)

OR Quote 4: Adultery

He’d rather believe somehow Ivanova’s parents didn’t notice that Marcos had the disease, and so she married him in ignorance, even though Ockham’s razor decrees that we believe the simplest explanation: Marcão’s decay progressed like every other, testes first, and all of Novinha’s children were sired by someone else…What I don’t understand, if why Novinha didn’t marry Libo in the first place. It makes no sense at all for her to have married a man she obviously despised, whose disease she certainly knew about, and then to go ahead and bear children to the man she must have loved from the beginning.” (Pg. 140-141; Ch. 9)

it does if she's trying to hide certain files from him only accesible to a husband of hers... what better target then a husband who's bound to die and most likely doesn't care about anything else...but that's not the importance of this quote. the importance... it that we learned that all of Novinha's children were illegitimate, and their real father was Libo... making the connection for quote #3.

OR Quote 3: Sister from another Mister...what about the mother?

"You’re right, too…I saw him come in with his healing touch and I thought, if only he had been my father. Just the way I used to say that every day when I went ho9me from the Zenador’s Station. If only Libo were my father, if only I were his son. She smiled and held him; her hair took the tears from his face. 'Ah, Miro, I’m glad he wasn’t your father. Because then I’d be your sister, and I could never hope to have you for myself.'" (Pg. 150-151; Ch. 9)

well as my title may have already hinted at... they in fact are brother and sister, however it is only a speculation at this moment... not a fact (but the evidence is very solid). it's significant because it is the first time that we see these two love eachother, which will inevitably create a conflict when the discover the truth about their relatedness.

OR Quote 2: The BIG One...

"Tell Libo not to bother coming, just show him that simulation and see if he can figure it out before I get back. He’ll know- it’s the answer to the big one. The answer to everything." (Pg. 30; Ch. 1)

It’s too bad he dies.... I wanted to know the answer to everything... the purpose of this little speech is to get us gripped into the story... as I experienced, I wanted to know the answer to everything, and this little quote was a good clincher to get me to read the entire book to the end to find out.