Skip to content

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Another quote →

More quotes by Robert Charles Wilson

The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.

Darwinia (1998)

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

Spin (2005)

Strange, isn’t it, how people cling most desperately to a thing when it becomes least useful to them?

This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009)

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.

Vortex (2011)

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

All Robert Charles Wilson quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Charles Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.