Book Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 silence, all…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 evil it…

— 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 that you…

— Geoff Ryman

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

— Geoff Ryman