--- title: "1 Torturers Quotes By Geoff Ryman" description: "1 Torturers quotes by Geoff Ryman. Plus more from Geoff Ryman and more Torturers sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/908/geoff-ryman-24251_courage_she-thought-she-was-brave-but-she-did-no_2013900.jpg" --- > [“She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/she-thought-she-was-brave-but-she-did-not-have-that-kind-of-courage/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/908/geoff-ryman-24251_courage_she-thought-she-was-brave-but-she-did-no_2013900.jpg) ## More by Geoff Ryman > [“She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/she-saw-the-children-they-have-been-given-viruses-to-educate-them/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/there-is-no-man-so-unsuited-for-the-task-of-speaking-about-memory-as/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/once-there-was-a-dictator-he-drove-millions-to-various-kinds-of/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/sex-complicates-but-it-is-the-power-of-love-to-simplify/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/in-the-silence-nothing-was-fragmented-there-were-no-separate-strands/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/literature-for-me-tries-to-heal-the-harm-done-by-stories-how-much/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/william-has-learned-in-his-bones-that-survival-takes-the-form-of/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/you-always-use-that-word-remember-said-milena-you-say-remember-team/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/tyranny-is-a-form-of-perversion-we-come-to-love-it-every-government/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/the-music-comes-out-of-the-silence-i-don-t-mind-if-it-goes-back-in-we/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/in-a-sense-who-you-are-has-always-been-a-story-that-you-told-to/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/it-is-necessary-to-distinguish-between-history-and-fantasy-wherever/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/he-might-as-well-have-been-talking-english-for-all-mae-understood-him/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/this-is-what-books-only-aimed-to-do-and-never-could-give-you-the/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) > [“God, the woman must have been a pain. When she was alive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-ryman/god-the-woman-must-have-been-a-pain-when-she-was-alive/) [Geoff Ryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-ryman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/torturers/geoff-ryman/#itemlist", "name": "1 Torturers Quotes By Geoff Ryman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do. 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