Vortex Quotes

“What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“matttress”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“I drew on Under a Green Sky and The Medea Hypothesis, by the reliably pessimistic Peter Ward,”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“Turk had once killed a man, and he had built a life on the foundation of that guilt.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“The sum of all paths,”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“The Hypotheticals took you and they remembered you and eventually they re-created you, and that means the real Turk Findley is as dead and long-gone as the real Allison Pearl. You’re a convincing replica, but you were born in a desert with another man’s memories—you’re no more responsible for that man’s sins than I am for Allison’s.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“Reason breeds more monsters than conscience, Mr. Findley.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“Less than half an hour passed before he buzzed her from the security gate in the lobby.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“To put it crudely, in cortical democracies citizens reason together; in limbic democracies they feel together.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“Which meant the State Care population was continually rising while its budget remained fixed.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“By the time she reached her apartment in Clear Lake”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“In the greenhouse at this nursery where I work, there are paths between the plants and the seedling tables. That's so you can get from one place to another. Also so you can work on the plants without stepping on them. Those paths all connect with one another. You can go this way or you can go that. It all has the same beginning and the same ending. Though you can only ever stand in one place at once.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex

“You can’t really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.”
― Robert Charles Wilson, Vortex