Evening's Empires Quotes

“The past doesn’t change, does it?”
“It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

“This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

“pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn.”
― Paul McAuley, Evening's Empires

“When people go looking for something, they often find something else.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

“We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

“The multiverse, she said, was like an old library whose shelves were packed with books arranged by a cataloguing system that ranked them according to similarity, each book containing within its covers a story that varied only slightly from the stories of its immediate neighbours, but by increasing degrees from those of increasingly distant books.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

“What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

“They were the last remnant of the old Western cults which had venerated the primacy of the individual. The ghosts of libertarians trying to keep their little candle-flames of ego-self alight for as long as possible, refusing to understand that flames are never the same but are always dancing, always changing.”
― Paul McAuley, Evening's Empires

“We fight to establish fundamental truths. The proxies fight over whether or not meat from a particular species of animal should be eaten, or on which day it should be eaten, or how it should be prepared. But I admit that I do rather admire them. They could certainly teach you a thing or two about revenge.”
― Paul McAuley, Evening's Empires

“I was taught that the existence of the Universe does not require a first cause. And that its creation and everything in it can be explained by observation and deduction.”
― Paul McAuley, Evening's Empires

“Hari was still young enough to believe that the world was sensitive to his emotions and moods, that everyone was a player in the drama of his life.”
― Paul McAuley, Evening's Empires