“I pulled the Net chip out of my head, cutting her off. The chip was long and white, with many metal legs; cupped in my hand, it looked like some pale, crawling thing that you'd find living under a rock.… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“Feel no regret for roses, autumn too has its delights...How could she say that? Didn't she see that for us there could never be… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...you think cabling is unnatural--that's what your arguments all come down to. But it's not. Not between people that really fit. Maya, do you… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you that it's horrible. I want to tell you that being suppressed makes every moment of existence a torment, because… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“You think we have a connection because of all the things you've sucked out of my mind by screening, but that isn't real. Trust… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...it changes the central fact of the human condition: that each of us lives behind one set of eyes, and not another; that our… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“We need them? Is that the best reason you can come up with? He laughed, a rasping, mechanical sound. "The kings of the ocean… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“I had recognized her. They had tried to tear her out, but she had lived in me--deep in my heart and secret, nameless and… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“I'd caught what cameras call an updraft: just as the viewers got over the first rush of interest, others smelled the excitement and tuned… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“The mind has doors...even as the body does. And when you drill new holes, you tap old hungers.” — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“..you can't just break through a person's defenses like thatl the defenses are a part of the person, they are the person. It's our… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“First the bugs divide your mind into parcels that are almost independent--I always picture paper growing up between the wrinkles of the brain like… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“I pulled the Net chip out of my head, cutting her off. The chip was long and white, with many metal legs; cupped in… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“What is a medium like telepresence but the extension--no, the very definition--of ourselves? Are we, who live things at a distance, the same species… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
