“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.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“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”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“But the world is what it is and won’t be bargained with.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“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.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“...slept too long. And I don’t much like the world I woke up to.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“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.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“We are as ephemeral as rain drops.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them;”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“And don’t you dare say you love me, because I know that’s not true. You don’t know the difference between being in love and conducting yourself like you’re in love. It’s nice you picked me, but it could have been anybody, and believe me, Tyler, it would have been just as disappointing, one way or another.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“But it was my first evidence that Diane lived in a world even bigger than the Big House, a world where grief and joy moved as ponderously as tides, with the weight of an ocean behind them.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“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.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
“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?”
― Robert Charles Wilson, quote from Spin
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“in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,”
― quote from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
“Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked.
His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it.
should I?
Maybe not...”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Wild Card
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
“We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.”
― Claudia Gray, quote from Afterlife
“You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?”
Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?”
Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Blink
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