The Martians Quotes

“If you don’t act on it, it wasn’t a true feeling”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Martians

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Martians

“With the intercom they could wander far apart from each other and still converse, and no one could know they were talking, while each voice hung in the other's ear. So they talked and talked. Everyone has had conversations that have been crucial in their lives: clarity of expression, quickness of feeling, attentiveness to the other's words, a belief in the reality of the other's world - of these and other elements are such conversations made, and at the same time the words themselves can be concerned with the simplest, most ordinary things:
"Look at that rock.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Martians

“Habits were such lies, such lies, lulling them into the feeling that there was something that was lasting, when really nothing lasted. This was the last time she would ever sit on this bench. If she came down to the corniche tomorrow and sat on this same bench, it would again be the last time, and there would again be nothing lasting about it.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Martians