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She had made it clear, as had Damian, that although the marriage solemnized a real commitment, it didn’t mean she and I were finished. But we saw each other far less often than we once had. And to be honest, I was a little uncomfortable about sleeping with a married woman. Not because the relationship was immoral but because it was brutally asymmetrical.

The Affinities Quotes

There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity…

Blind Lake Quotes

Gods, the pamphlets asserted, were not supernatural beings, but tenuously living things, like ethereal plants, that evolved in concert with the human species. We were simply their medium—our brains and flesh the soil in which they sprouted and grew.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

God, he asserted, was not contained in any Book, but was a Voice, which every human being could hear (and which most of us chose to ignore). The common name of that voice was Conscience; but it was a God by any reasonable definition, Stepney claimed.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.I am the one who wakes up in the morning.Always.Every morning.I don’t die.I just become increasingly unlikely.

Divided by Infinity Quotes Pensive Quotes Science fiction Quotes

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Axis Quotes

When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

The Affinities Quotes

Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

Spin Quotes

Maybe this was what the media was calling “desperate euphoria”—the we’re-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?

Spin Quotes

And the strange thing was that it felt absolutely familiar, the curve of her arm under my hand and the weight of her head against my shoulder: not discovered but remembered. She felt the way I had always known she would feel. Even the tang of her fear was familiar.

Romance Quotes / Spin Quotes

You can’t really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

Vortex Quotes

knowledge wasn’t created but discovered;

Spin Quotes

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...

Love Quotes / Dramatic Quotes Parental love Quotes Spin Quotes

Suddenly I wanted the earlier version back, but there was no retrieving it. When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

The Affinities Quotes

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

Even a dry well may freshen.

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Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for these buildings were little more than tinder and brown paper, putting on airs of architecture.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

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I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

Spin Quotes

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.

A Bridge of Years Quotes Car salesman Quotes Humor Quotes Poet Quotes Poetry Quotes Science fiction Quotes

We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

Phylosophy Quotes Spin Quotes

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

Spin Quotes

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect.""I don't deny that they were imperfect," Julian said in a distant voice. "I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them.""What sin is that?""They evolved into us," he said.

History Quotes / Evolution Quotes Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes Perfection Quotes Society Quotes

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

Friendship Quotes Love Quotes / Conversation Quotes Spin Quotes

The territory through which we passed had been overbuilt in the days over the Secular Ancients, but only a few traces of that exuberant time remained, and a whole forest had grown up since then, maple and birch and pine, its woody roots no doubt entwined with artifacts from the Efflorescence of Oil and with the bones of the artifacts' owners. What is the modern world, Julian once asked, but a vast Cemetery, reclaimed by nature? Every step we took reverberated in the skulls of our ancestors, and I felt as if there were centuries rather than soil beneath my feet.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

Spin Quotes

When people come to understand how big the Universe is and how short a human life is, their hearts cry out. Sometimes it's a shout of joy. But for most of us it's a cry of terror. The terror of extinction, the terror of meaninglessness. Our hearts cry out. Maybe to God, or maybe just to break the silence".

...slept too long. And I don’t much like the world I woke up to.

Spin Quotes

there is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead.

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

Spin Quotes

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as “natural” (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting.

Perseids and Other Stories Quotes

Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge.

Blind Lake Quotes

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

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What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.

Evolutionary psychology Quotes Vortex Quotes

What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Life and death Quotes Spin Quotes

I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and makes life more pleasurable for mankind, not worse. I want a Bible in which Isaac leaps up from the sacrificial stone and chokes the life out of Abraham, to punish him for the abject and bloody sin of Obedience. I want a Bible in which Lazarus is dead and stubborn about it, rather than standing to attention at the beck and call of every passing Messiah.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

Spin Quotes

But the world is what it is and won’t be bargained with.

Spin Quotes

Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd say, "Left index finger to right index finger straight across your heart, that's the history of the Earth. You know what human history is? Human history is the nail on your right-hand index finger. Not even the whole nail. Just that little white part. The part you clip off when it gets too long. That's the discovery of fire and the invention of writing and Galileo and Newton and the moon landing and 9/11 and last week and this morning. Compared to evolution we're newborns. Compared to geology, we barely exist

Spin Quotes

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Childhood Quotes / Adulthood Quotes Deceit Quotes Lying Quotes The Chronoliths Quotes

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Quotes

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Darwinia Quotes God Quotes Religion Quotes

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Spin Quotes

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

Philosophy Quotes Time Quotes / Spin Quotes