Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end. — Robert Charles Wilson Away from you Copy Share Image
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. — Robert Charles Wilson Adam Copy Share Image
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. — Robert Charles Wilson Feels Copy Share Image
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and… — Robert Charles Wilson Advisors Copy Share Image
“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of… — Robert Charles Wilson Despair Copy Share Image
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.… — Robert Charles Wilson Cadavers Copy Share Image
“I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a… — Robert Charles Wilson Doubt Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Bombing Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles Wilson Chaos Copy Share Image
“Were they our betters? No. They are people like us, Aunt Abbie, no better than some and no worse than others. From… — Robert Charles Wilson Paradise on earth Copy Share Image
The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired… — Robert Charles Wilson Bullets Copy Share Image
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems,… — Robert Charles Wilson Atheist Copy Share Image
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was… — Robert Charles Wilson Alternatives Copy Share Image
“The territory through which we passed had been overbuilt in the days over the Secular Ancients, but only a few traces of… — Robert Charles Wilson Every step Copy Share Image
“You can’t really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.” — Robert Charles Wilson Comprehend Copy Share Image
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a… — Robert Charles Wilson Attacking Copy Share Image
“ It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management. ” — Robert Charles Wilson Job Copy Share Image
“Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one… — Robert Charles Wilson Believe Copy Share Image
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. — Robert Charles Wilson Average Copy Share Image
“Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid. — Robert Charles Wilson Can do Copy Share Image
“Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.” — Robert Charles Wilson Anchors Copy Share Image