Infinity Gate Quotes

“When great empires fall, historians theorise, they fall so slowly that their demise isn’t even noticeable to those who live through it. It has to be reconstructed generations later, when the dust has settled and the patterns hidden behind seemingly random events can finally be made out.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“when the dust has settled and the patterns hidden behind seemingly random events can finally be made out.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“When great empires fall, historians theorise, they fall so slowly that their demise isn’t even noticeable to those who live through it. It has to be reconstructed generations later,”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“paradise was also a local condition, a question of who you were and where you were standing.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“I would probably have paid less attention to the packaging and more to the contents.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“To wish for the world to be in a better state was to wish for the entire history of life to have played out differently. It was a pretty big ask.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“You need to evade, then. Don’t go straight home, Paz. Go somewhere crowded first. The mall, Paz thought. But when they got to the Retail Complex and saw the long line waiting to go in she remembered the CoIL checkpoint and shied away. If she let the enforcers scan her, Dulcie would pop to the top of her thoughts like a fart in a bathtub.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“Life is a movement that makes itself within the great unmaking that is the entropic universe.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“When great empires fall, historians theorise, they fall so slowly that their demise isn’t even noticeable to those who live through it.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“He thought she might come when he least expected, waking him from this strange dream with a kiss, whispering her forgiveness, bringing him home.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“Sentients on every world have this moment when they think intelligence is what separates them from the rest of creation. It takes them a lot longer to figure out that they’re arguing from the very heart of survivor bias, and therefore underestimating the importance of blind, brute chance.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“Monadic consciousness.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“the sergeant answered emolliently.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“Penance Madrigal Solar, the physicist”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate

“The voice was a woman’s, warm and rich. Paz thought it was the sort of voice that might belong to a woman of her mother’s age – old enough that her fur had begun to darken and her ears to fold inwards at the tips.”
― M.R. Carey, Infinity Gate