Robert Charles Wilson - The Chronoliths (2001)

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It was possible at last to hear the silence—to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

Robert Charles Wilson
I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Robert Charles Wilson
I want them not to forget. Which is, I suppose, what all aged veterans want. But they'll forget. Of course they will. And their children will know less of us than they do, and their children's children will find us barely imaginable.
Which is as it should be. You can't stop time.

Robert Charles Wilson
The most fundamental parental urge is the urge to nurture and protect. To grieve for a child is to admit ultimate impotence. You can't protect what goes into the ground. You can't tuck a blanket around a grave.

Robert Charles Wilson
Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin's age possess no context; one video event is much like another.

Robert Charles Wilson
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

Robert Charles Wilson
Try to imagine that Minkowski cube, Ray said, as a block of liquid water freezing (as contrary as this seems) from the bottom up. The progression of the freeze represents at least our human experience of the march of time. What is frozen is past, immutable, changeless. What is liquid is future, indeterminate, uncertain. We live on the crystallizing boundary.

Robert Charles Wilson
I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?

Robert Charles Wilson
Sometimes the conscience makes demands that are non-negotiable. Courage has nothing to do with it. We weren't here because we were brave. We were here because we had to be here.

Robert Charles Wilson
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Robert Charles Wilson
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Robert Charles Wilson