Geoff Ryman

“She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic…

— Geoff Ryman

“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace…

— Geoff Ryman

“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts…

— Geoff Ryman

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.

— Geoff Ryman

“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the…

— Geoff Ryman

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been…

— Geoff Ryman

“William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to…

— Geoff Ryman

“You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.”

— Geoff Ryman

“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more…

— Geoff Ryman

“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...”

— Geoff Ryman

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story…

— Geoff Ryman

“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.”

— Geoff Ryman

“He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.”

— 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…

— Geoff Ryman

“God, the woman must have been a pain. When she was alive.”

— Geoff Ryman

“She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers,…

— Geoff Ryman

“Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so…

— Geoff Ryman

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

— Geoff Ryman

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

— Geoff Ryman

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip,…

— Geoff Ryman

“Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. ‘I’m sorry about your shins,’ she said. Milena lifted the lid…

— Geoff Ryman

“Topeka meant, "a good place to find potatoes". That made Dorothy laugh. But any place is what you make it said etta.…

— Geoff Ryman

You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What…

— Geoff Ryman

Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they…

— Geoff Ryman