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Quotes from Spin — Robert Charles Wilson

born 1953 Canada

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13 quotes

We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.

Spin (2005)

I don’t believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

Spin (2005)

The world is what it is and won’t be bargained with.

Spin (2005)

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

Spin (2005)

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Spin (2005)

He rolled his eyes. “Those are things people say, Tyler. Talking about multilateralism and diplomacy is like saying ‘I love you’—it serves to facilitate the fucking.

Spin (2005)

He’s exactly what she wants. He’s the last thing she needs.

Spin (2005)

His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.

Spin (2005)

Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.

Spin (2005)

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel’s ass.

Spin (2005)

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

Spin (2005)

Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

Spin (2005)

“It never fails to astonish me,” Carol said. “The tenacity of love.”

Spin (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Charles Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.