“... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair…… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The charge took less than forty seconds but Kassad discovered that this was ample time for his mouth to go absolutely dry,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about how free of mobs recent centuries had been: to create a mob there must be public meetings, and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“They made love then. Kassad, at twenty-three standard years, had been in love once and had enjoyed sex many times. He thought… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The universe deepened at that moment, the music of the spheres grew from a mere chorus to a symphony as triumphant as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until… — Dan Simmons Copy Share
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I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. — Dan Simmons Copy Share
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