“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true… — 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
“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter. — 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
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
I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark -… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
