# Blood Music

- Author: [Greg Bear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music

## Quotes

> Nothing will ever be the same again.
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> Good! Wonderful! Wasn’t it all badly flawed anyway?
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> No, perhaps not. Not until now.

p. 219 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/nothing-will-ever.md)

> “You’re a romantic, aren’t you?” she said.
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> “I suppose I am.”
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> “I am too. The silliest people in the world are romantics.”

p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/youre-a-romantic.md)

> “Very evocative. He seems to be confirming what I said last year—that the universe really has no underpinnings, that when a good hypothesis comes along, one that explains the prior events, the underpinnings shape themselves to accommodate and a powerful theory is born.”
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> “Then there is no ultimate reality?”
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> “Apparently not. Bad hypotheses, those that don’t fit what happen on our level, are rejected by the universe. Good ones, powerful ones, are incorporated.”

p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/very-evocative-he-seems.md)

> Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory. It can be stored in the structure of space-time. What is matter, after all, but a standing-wave of information in the vacuum?

p. 237 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/information-can-be-stored.md)

> Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
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> It was in the blood, the flesh,
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> And now it is forever.

p. 247 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/nothing-is-lost.md)

> Around her gulps of water, she repeated her prayer, until the monotony and futility silenced her.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/around-her-gulps.md)

> “I’m going to take you out tonight,” he said. “Another Heisenberg dinner.”
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> “What’s that?”
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> “Uncertainty,” Edward said crisply. “We know where we are going, but not what we are going to eat. Or vice versa.”
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> “Sounds wonderful. Which car?”
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> “The Quantum, of course.”
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> “Oh, Lord. We just had the speedometer fixed.”
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> “And the steering went out?”
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> “Shh! It’s still working. We’re cheating.”

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/im-going-to-take.md)

> He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.
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> But wasn’t that true of every creator?
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> Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?

p. 219 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/he-may-not.md)

> Can’t own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can’t own them.

p. 207 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/cant-own-a-woman.md)