Quotes from Bios — Robert Charles Wilson
born 1953 Canada
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“The planet doesn’t hate you,” Theo had once said. “But its intimacies are fatal.”
Bios (1999)
That worries me. One death is attrition; two would look like incompetence—on someone’s part.
Bios (1999)
Perfect aristocratic tone, Degrandpre thought: insult and menace in a single phrase.
Bios (1999)
Life invented it first, Zoe thought, like so many other things. Like eyes: Turning photon impacts into neurochemical events with such subtlety that a frog can target a fly and a man can admire a rose.
Bios (1999)
The awful thing about lying was that it became a habit, then a reflex, as automatic as the blinking of the eyes or the voiding of the bowels. Lying was the Terrestrial disease, his mother used to say.
Bios (1999)
She understood too much. She understood that she had reached her destiny point, that time and the circumstances of her life had conspired to bring her to this place. For one ecstatic moment she was the axis on which the stars revolved.
Bios (1999)
Here was the real horror, Degrandpre thought, this breaking of barriers. Civilization, after all, was the making of divisions, of walls and fences to parse the chaotic wild into ordered cells of human imagination. Wilderness invades the garden and reason is overthrown.
Bios (1999)