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Quotes from Blood Music — Greg Bear

1951–2022 United States

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Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.

Blood Music (1985)

Around her gulps of water, she repeated her prayer, until the monotony and futility silenced her.

Blood Music (1985)

Can’t own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can’t own them.

Blood Music (1985)

Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory. It can be stored in the structure of space-time. What is matter, after all, but a standing-wave of information in the vacuum?

Blood Music (1985)

Nothing will ever be the same again.
Good! Wonderful! Wasn’t it all badly flawed anyway?
No, perhaps not. Not until now.

Blood Music (1985)

He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.
But wasn’t that true of every creator?
Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?

Blood Music (1985)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Greg Bear (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.