Sea Of Tranquility Quotes
"Edwin is capable of action but prone to inertia."
"This could be a life, he finds himself thinking. It could be as simple as this."
"A life of solitude could be a very pleasant thing."
"There's pleasure in action, he decides, as the train leaves the city."
"The scale is wrong. The train crawls like a millipede through endless grass."
"Every advantage you've ever had in this life has derived in some manner or another from the fact of your being descended from the maniacal grandson of a Viking raider."
"It's a far-distant simulation of England, a watercolor superimposed unconvincingly on the landscape."
"If there's pleasure in action, there's peace in stillness."
"The building is so new that the church still holds the fragrance of freshly cut wood."
"Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin."
"It was like being strapped to the roof of a runaway train!"
"She had to walk all the way through the party before she found Louisa."
"It was a cold night, and the moon was brilliant over New York City."
"To imagine that civilization would still exist in ten thousand years."
"I remember the first time I saw him, I looked at him and I knew he’d be important in my life."
"I wrote three books that no one noticed, and then... it's like slipping into a parallel universe."
"It’s amazing how time slows when I’m traveling."
"It’s easier than having a day job, just remember that."
"It's the attention part that's hard to hire for."
"I used to stand at the Periphery for hours, looking out through the glass."
"Sometimes on dark nights I liked to cross the street to the Periphery, to look through the composite glass at Colony Two glittering in the distance."
"There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."
"The night extended before me, all those magnificently empty hours shining with possibility."
"We knew it was coming but we didn’t quite believe it, so we prepared in low-key, unobtrusive ways."
"If we were living in a simulation, how would we know it was a simulation?"
"I’ve always loved rain, and knowing that it isn’t coming from clouds doesn’t make me love it less."
"Something no one ever talked about in those days was the shabbiness of the moon colonies."
"I would rather do a dangerous job than a job that makes me comatose with boredom."
"Listen, I don't mean to make you uncomfortable or put you on the spot. But I'm curious if you experienced something strange in the Oklahoma City Airship Terminal."
"I don't mind talking about this, but I'm afraid I'll seem too eccentric if it makes it into the final version of the interview."
"It was exactly like you described it in the book."
"This will sound silly, but my editor over at Contingencies Magazine likes me to end interviews with a fun question."
"I'm not sure I've ever been warned more clearly in my life."
"It's shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall."
"It's bad, Dion, it's spreading out of control."
"I don't know why it's so tiring. So much more tiring than normal meetings, I mean."
"Perhaps we long to just blow everything up and start over."
"Perhaps we believe on some level that if the world were to end and be remade, we might be remade too."
"Turns out reality is more important than we thought."
"No one wants this to happen, obviously, but think of the opportunity for heroism."
"There's just so much death. There's death all around us."
"I just haven't been in a room with anyone in a very long time."
"I don't think he shot those videos. I think someone else did."