112 quotes
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that’s why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
The Chronoliths (2001)
He’s exactly what she wants. He’s the last thing she needs.
Spin (2005)
I don’t plan ever to get old. It’s unseemly.
The Cartesian Theater (2006)
I pretended to admire the tattoo in the shape of the Greek letter omega that covered her cheeks and forehead. It looked as if a dray horse had kicked her in the face.
The Cartesian Theater (2006)
His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.
Spin (2005)
To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?
Vortex (2011)
Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.
Burning Paradise (2013)
There were times when his life had seemed to him like one prolonged act of sleepwalking.
Memory Wire (1987)
“So we can trust each other.”
“It’s the rest of the world we can’t be sure about.”
Burning Paradise (2013)
If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true.
Blind Lake (2003)
But really, who do you think we’re working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.
Darwinia (1998)
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)
Ris, it can’t tell the truth—it can’t distinguish between truth and lies. You know that. It uses words to manipulate people.
Burning Paradise (2013)
A lot of people have made political careers out of religious piety and the fear of foreigners, but that won’t last. Not enough foreigners or miracles to sustain the crisis.
Darwinia (1998)
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
Memory Wire (1987)
“What are you saying, you think he’s completely sane?”
“No. But I’m not sure any of us rises to that standard.”
Burning Paradise (2013)
He was not accustomed to thinking about these things so bluntly, but the facts were as obvious as they were painful.
Memory Wire (1987)
Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it.
Axis (2007)
“You think Wexler is lying?”
“I think he’s fallible,” Byron had replied.
Memory Wire (1987)
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Blind Lake (2003)