The Book of the New Sun Quotes

“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they stood now when I was a child playing among the cypresses and peaceful tombs of our necropolis, and that they would stand yet, drinking in the last light of the dying sun, even as now, when I had been dead as long as those who rested there.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“. . .Consciousness came and went.

Consciousness went and came like the errant winds of spring, and I, who so often have had difficulty in falling asleep among the besieging shades of memory, now fought to stay awake as a child struggles to lift a faltering kite by the string.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“Why are you pounding on my door?" Her smile told me she knew.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“Може би човечеството ще се върне към пагубното си минало, когато Старото слънце залезе и ние се спъваме с кости, вървейки из тъмното?”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“They had not learned together, but rather each of them, man or woman, had listened to one of the machines as if there were no one in the world but those two. And because there was so much knowledge and only a few to learn it, the machines had taught each differently”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“Culture was an outgrowth of the vision of the Increate as logical and just, bound by interior consistency to fulfill his promises and threats.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

“Cuando los regalos se merecen, son un pago, no un regalo”
― Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun