Quotes from book
Memory Wire

Name: Memory Wire
Author: Robert Charles Wilson

To escape his past, Keller has become an Eye - an all-seeing, unfeeling human video recorder. But his detachment fails when he meets Teresa, and he becomes involved in murder, smuggling and worse.

“The past was gone, the dead were dead and did not speak, and everybody dies; one day Oberg would be dead and silent, too, and that was as it should be: the broad and welcoming ocean of oblivion. It made life bearable. It was sacred. It should not be tampered with.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 20 (p. 179)

““You think Wexler is lying?”
“I think he’s fallible,” Byron had replied.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 2 (p. 20)

“It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 4 (p. 33)

“He had come out of the war twice-decorated and with a thoughtful respect for the horrors of combat. He had seen terrible things, participated in terrible things…but that was the nature of war, and it was not something you could enter into halfway. War was a state of mind, war was all or nothing.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 15 (p. 134)

“There were times when his life had seemed to him like one prolonged act of sleepwalking.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 16 (p. 142)

“He was not accustomed to thinking about these things so bluntly, but the facts were as obvious as they were painful.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 21 (p. 181)

“They allow us access to the experience of the past—the only kind of time machine we are ever likely to have.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 18 (p. 160)

“For them, the idea of forgetting was indistinguishable from the idea of death. To pass out of memory was to pass out of the world. To conserve memory was to confer immortality.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Memory Wire

Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 18 (p. 161)

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