Quotes from Daniel H. Wilson

I hope this scene isn't playing out all over the nation. People like me struggling to grab what they can. Whole families, even. Grasping at the leftover shards of their lives.

You want to know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things. You want to know everything. But you can understand so little.

If you work hard and stay in line, the machines feed you and keep you warm and alive. You learn to ignore the sharp crack of the sentry guns. Force yourself to forget what the sound means. You look for the carrot. Stop seeing the stick.

I ripped it off from that old movie They Live. You remember They Live, with the glasses?" I shrug, and he shakes his head. "Nobody watches the classics anymore.

A deeper truth exists, waiting to be found... inviting me to go every direction at once, and none.

I'm the hero of my own story, but others tell their stories as well.

The true knowledge is not in the things, which are few, but in finding the connection between the things.

Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help wanting it. You cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

What the hell, I think. My pistol is on my hips and my balls are between my legs.

We sent a robot to do a man's job.

Dealing with the Andromeda microparticle had gone from a purely scientific undertaking to a secret arms race with the sort of global repercussions not encountered since the height of the Cold War. As a result, Project Wildfire had grown to consume a disproportionate amount of resources. It had become a gargantuan feat just to hide its dozens of subprojects from the public view, costing billions of dollars and millions of man-hours.

We are a better species for having fought this war. CORMAC "BRIGHT BOY" WALLACE

All the soldiers say that Rob likes to party. And when he gets going, he's one hell of a dance partner.

My porch feels as safe as a chocolate doughnut on an ant hill.

Presidents and generals and all the important people in position to make the most important decisions are, by and large, the least equipped for making them. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

Her weight is delicate in my arms, like a leaf carried on the quaking back of this monstrous river. I chose to protect her and I failed. I do not know if the choices we make are ours or not; whether the planets hold any more agency in their orbits than we do in ours. But even if I am a prisoner to clockwork, I cannot imagine leaving her.

We live, and then forgetting -- we live yet again. Sometimes, the consequences of the past follow us across many lives.

I believe in the future. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

My grandfather used to say the world is full of hidden truths, if only you open your eyes and look. New frontiers are waiting to be explored, no matter what the schoolteachers say or how many books have been written. Maps are just a lie we tell ourselves to feel safe.

Our babies are the roots we dig into the world.

The future is coming faster than most people realize. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

All things are born from the mind of god. But in the last month, the mind of god has gone insane.

I may be capable of evil, son, but that doesn't mean I am.