Prayers to Broken Stones Quotes

“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
― Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones

“I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.”
― Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones

“Brother turned the page and read aloud again without once glancing down at the text.”
― Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones

“Human thought can be described as a standing wavefront. Sort of a superhologram. Or, maybe more precisely, a hologram containing a few million smaller holograms.”
― Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones

“The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is ferric oxide, known as rust. The grizzly bear whose potent hug
Was feared by all, is now a rug. Great Caesar’s bust is on the shelf,
And I don’t feel so well myself. ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS
by Arthur Guiterman”
― Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones