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Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end. — S.A. McAuley
I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away. — Paul McAuley
Listen: I'm not going to tell you what to do. We cannot make decisions for you. We came to help, but we do not want to interfere. We gave you a gift, yours to do with as you will. But you've heard all that before. We're happy to talk. To answer questions about why we don't stop war and suffering, cure cancer, end poverty, point the way to heaven or point out that there is no heaven. Ask us anything. We don't mind. We try our best to be candid, but there is an inevitable degree of mutual incomprehension. Because your qualia aren't our qualia. Because we're running models of who you think you are and what you think you know, but they're just models. Because the map isn't the territory. Because we aren't gods. We aren't even close. You know? At best, we're pipers at the gates of dawn. Who have come to this little blue planet to help. — Paul McAuley
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise. — Catherine McAuley
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling. — Catherine McAuley
To escape the deepening grip of multinational corporations and the Coca-colonisation of the weird. Out here, you could still have your mind eaten by an alien phantom, stumble upon a lost city, or discover a fraying thread of some kind of weird quantumised metamaterial that could kick-start a new industrial revolution and make you a billionaire. Out here were places not yet mapped. Old dreams and deep mysteries. A world wild and strange and still mostly unknown. — Paul McAuley
Your lingering presence erodes me. Heartbeat by heartbeat. Cell by aging cell. Washing away any sense of self I ever had. Intruding into a nothingness I've struggled to find the pieces to fill. A jar filled with stones, piled with pebbles, topped with sand, only to be left with the knowledge that water, with enough time and persistence, has the power to wash it all away.
Your name is on my lips. Frozen. A familiar cadence of syllables that once soothed me.
A name I can't speak. Can't think of.
Not on this shore, at our lake. Not on this day. When only a year ago, with a foreshadowing that is now ice in my veins, you stood next to me, in this jacket, your hand in mine, so warm, and stared out at this expanse and whispered in awe, This is what a cold lake looks like. — S.A. McAuley
He was the one thing in my life that was still my choice. And I chose him above the Revolution. — S.A. McAuley
The multiverse, she said, was like an old library whose shelves were packed with books arranged by a cataloguing system that ranked them according to similarity, each book containing within its covers a story that varied only slightly from the stories of its immediate neighbours, but by increasing degrees from those of increasingly distant books. — Paul McAuley
We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future. — Paul McAuley
Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God. — Catherine McAuley
She said, 'Is that legal?' 'I was trained to use bigger guns than this.' Which didn't exactly answer her question. — Paul McAuley
We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back. — Catherine McAuley
While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands — Amy McAuley
A poster by the door to the locker room showed a Jackaroo avatar dressed as Uncle Sam, pointing a white-gloved finger under the caption I Want You for Anal Probing. — Paul McAuley
Everything's a data point. — Paul McAuley
Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race. — Paul McAuley
The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow. — Catherine McAuley
What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum? — Paul McAuley
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God. — Catherine McAuley
One thing I've learnt in life is that you only know where things start. You never know where it's going to end up. — Vicki McAuley
This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us. — Catherine McAuley
One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present. — Paul McAuley
Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached. — Paul McAuley
Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow. — Catherine McAuley
One day something will come through that will amaze us all. — Paul McAuley
The next Monday, assembly seemed to go on forever. The kindy kids got up to sing 'Kookaburra', and then half of year two were awarded certificates for reading. Holly thought it would never end. Then — Rowan McAuley
Pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn. — Paul McAuley
But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay? — Paul McAuley
Our charity is to be cordial ... something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other. — Catherine McAuley
I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage. — Catherine McAuley
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women. — Catherine McAuley
The concept of hero is very interesting to us,' Unlikely Worlds said. 'We are composites. No one component is worth more than any other. Your minds are in some ways similar. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes — Paul McAuley
Drink up. I get more enjoyable the higher your blood alcohol content gets. — S.A. McAuley
A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties. — Catherine McAuley
The mountain is awake, with utterance
Of flame and burning rock and thunderous sound-
Abode of the ancestral spirits who dance
In blissful fire! Tremors run through the ground
And through men's hearts. The people stand dismayed
By prophecies as mantic ghosts invade
With alien voice the soothsayers in their trance. — James McAuley
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. — Catherine McAuley
The poor need help today, not next week. — Catherine McAuley
The past doesn't change, does it?"
"It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older. — Paul McAuley
A good beginning is of great importance. — Catherine McAuley
Fuck my country and yours, they will continue fighting whether we live or die. But I can't, and won't, go on without you. Not anymore. — S.A. McAuley
The tender Mercy of God has given us one another. — Catherine McAuley
This lake is alive. Kicking. Breathing. Frothing. I envision it's as angry as I am. As resolved to its fate as I've become. But the only thing this lake has conceded is that to fight is to lose, so it rolls with the brutal slip of seasons. There is no whisper of argument from the waves. They take this beating and crest forward, down, on top of themselves. Over and over again. With a strength I try to breathe in. To believe in. — S.A. McAuley
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories. — Paul J. McAuley
I couldn't fight the urge to close my eyes, to match my breathing to his. And I was flooded with a feeling that couldn't be serenity. Because Peacemakers were never meant to know real peace. — S.A. McAuley
This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand. — Paul McAuley
If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior. — Catherine McAuley
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image. — Catherine McAuley
When people go looking for something, they often find something else. — Paul McAuley
If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will. — Catherine McAuley
No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase. — Catherine McAuley
Ugly Chicken says she's nice,' the little girl said. Freddie — Paul McAuley
Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are. — Paul J. McAuley