He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.
Geoff RymanThere is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.
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She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By ten, they had been made adult, forced like flowers to bloom early. But they were not flowers of love. They were flowers of work, to be put to work. There was no time.
Geoff RymanGod, the woman must have been a pain. When she was alive.
Geoff RymanThe music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...
Geoff RymanEverything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.
Geoff RymanIn the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all of that fell away, and there was only what was here, and what was to be done.
Geoff RymanTyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.
Geoff RymanSex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.
Geoff RymanEverything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.
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