Grant Williams Quotes

Scott Carey A strange calm possessed me. I thought more clearly than I had ever thought before — as if my mind were bathed in a brilliant light. I recognized that part of my illness was rooted in hunger, and I remembered the food on the shelf, the cake threaded with spider web. I no longer felt hatred for the spider. Like myself it struggled blindly for the means to live.

Chief Dan Corey Evacuate? The entire town?

Dave Miller Chief, the rocks are gonna come crashing through here like an avalanche over an anthill. There won't be a living thing left. You won't even be able to tell where San Angelo was.

Prof. Arthur Flanders When they're no longer confined to the walls of the canyon, when they break out into the valley floor, their rate of multiplication is going to be frightening.

Chief Dan Corey You mean they'll grow even faster?

Dave Miller Each one that shatters will make a hundred more.

Prof. Arthur Flanders When that hundred shatters, there'll be ten thousand of them. The third cycle will create a million. Unless we stop them, they'll spread over the whole countryside.

Dave Miller With enough rain, there's no boundary they can't cross.

Scott Carey I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close — the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet — like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!

Prof. Arthur Flanders No telling what went on inside of it. It's been gathering the secrets of time and space for billions of years.

Dave Miller Billions of years? And how long have we to unlock its most important secrets? Three hours or three minutes?

Clarice Maybe the best way to begin is to start thinking about the future.

Scott Carey A future? In a world of giants?

Clarice Hmm. I've lived them all my life. Oh, Scott, for people like you and me the world can be a wonderful place. The sky is as blue as it is for the giants. The friends are as warm.

Scott Carey I wish I could believe that.

Clarice You've got to believe that, don't you?

Scott Carey My prison, almost as far as I could see, a gray friendless area of space and time, and I resolved that as man had dominated the world of the sun, so I would dominate my world.