You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right.… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
“She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.” — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...” — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.” — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
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,… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share
