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“Bird flu?” Luo Ji said in alarm. “No. Bed flu. That’s what the media’s calling it. It started going around in a nearby city a week ago. It’s infectious, but symptoms are light. There’s no fever, just a runny nose, and some patients get a sore throat. There’s no need for medication, and it goes away on its own in three days or so after a little bed rest.”

— The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth's Past) (Page 231)

He now understood that the Wallfacers had a mission far weirder than any in history, its logic cold and twisted, yet unyielding as the chains that bound Prometheus. It was an unliftable curse impossible for the Wallfacers to break under their own strength.

— The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth's Past) (Page 116)

One consequence of nuclear technology was that it allowed a country of just a few million people to pose a substantial threat to one with a hundred million, something that at one time had been practically impossible. One of his key points was that the advantages of a large country were only truly advantageous in low-technology eras and would ultimately be weakened by the swift pace of technological progress, which would meanwhile enhance the strategic weight of small countries.

— The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth's Past) (Page 101)

“But, I did indeed invent an ultimate rule.” “Tell me.” “Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.”

— The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1) (Page 132)

But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

— The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1) (Page 116)

“Three days from now—that’s the fourteenth—between one and five in the morning, the entire universe will flicker for you.”

— The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1) (Page 92)

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

— The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1) (Page 73)

Ye noticed that Bai's style was similar to that of "Silent Spring", precise and plain, but also poetic.

— The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1) (6%)