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Top 25 Lily Brooks-Dalton Quotes (2025 Update)

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “What is magic but science that is not yet understood? What is science but magic with an explanation?”

1. “What is magic but science that is not yet understood? What is science but magic with an explanation?”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain – it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.”

2. “After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain – it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “They fought so hard to keep a world that was not meant to stay the same.”

3. “They fought so hard to keep a world that was not meant to stay the same.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “Only the cosmos inspired great feeling in him. Perhaps what he felt was love, but he’d never consciously named it. His was an all-consuming one-directional romance with the emptiness and the fullness of the entire universe. There was no room to spare, no time to waste on a lesser lover. He preferred it that way. The.”

4. “Only the cosmos inspired great feeling in him. Perhaps what he felt was love, but he’d never consciously named it. His was an all-consuming one-directional romance with the emptiness and the fullness of the entire universe. There was no room to spare, no time to waste on a lesser lover. He preferred it that way. The.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “The sky becomes translucent above her, the universe on the other side bleeding through as the blue deepens and the stars prick the atmosphere.”

5. “The sky becomes translucent above her, the universe on the other side bleeding through as the blue deepens and the stars prick the atmosphere.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn’t realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery’s favorite vehicle.”

6. “A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn’t realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery’s favorite vehicle.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “She can’t bring herself to say the goodbye she feels coming out loud. They are so old now – maybe it doesn’t need to be said. Maybe it’s already woven into each moment they share. Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs.”

7. “She can’t bring herself to say the goodbye she feels coming out loud. They are so old now – maybe it doesn’t need to be said. Maybe it’s already woven into each moment they share. Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “There is a necessary tension between knowing how nature works in theory and witnessing it.”

8. “There is a necessary tension between knowing how nature works in theory and witnessing it.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “This is survival. This is how the vessel protects the mind, how the mind protects the heart, how the heart goes on forgetting that its calling is to be undefended, that being broken is part of being whole.”

9. “This is survival. This is how the vessel protects the mind, how the mind protects the heart, how the heart goes on forgetting that its calling is to be undefended, that being broken is part of being whole.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs.”

10. “Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “Nursing a dying creature isn’t always the kind thing to do.”

11. “Nursing a dying creature isn’t always the kind thing to do.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”

12. “It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.”

13. “Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “The Government didn’t even bother with relocation packages. It just abandoned over three million people to their ruined infrastructure, their crumbling homes, the ravenous ocean.”

14. “The Government didn’t even bother with relocation packages. It just abandoned over three million people to their ruined infrastructure, their crumbling homes, the ravenous ocean.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “He had never been satisfied and never would be. It wasn’t success he craved, or even fame, it was history: he wanted to crack the universe open like a ripe watermelon, to arrange the mess of pulpy seeds before his dumbfounded colleagues. He wanted to take the dripping red fruit in his hands and quantify the guts of infinity to look back into the dawn of time and glimpse the very beginning. He wanted to be remembered.”

15. “He had never been satisfied and never would be. It wasn’t success he craved, or even fame, it was history: he wanted to crack the universe open like a ripe watermelon, to arrange the mess of pulpy seeds before his dumbfounded colleagues. He wanted to take the dripping red fruit in his hands and quantify the guts of infinity to look back into the dawn of time and glimpse the very beginning. He wanted to be remembered.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “Psychologically necessary equipment. The human mind had never been tested quite like this. Could they have been better prepared? Trained more extensively? What tools would help them now? It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”

16. “Psychologically necessary equipment. The human mind had never been tested quite like this. Could they have been better prepared? Trained more extensively? What tools would help them now? It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “He wanted to tell her about his work, his achievements, but also his failures -to confess his sins, and to be forgiven. Here, at the very end of his life, he had so much to say and yet so little strenght to say it.”

17. “He wanted to tell her about his work, his achievements, but also his failures -to confess his sins, and to be forgiven. Here, at the very end of his life, he had so much to say and yet so little strenght to say it.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “They’ve known for years. Decades. It didn’t make any difference. None at all. Because now it’s here and despite all that knowing, he’s lost. Everyone is. They had all hung their hats on the question of proximity. Yes, it will be bad, they’d said to one another, but we have years. We have time. Somehow we’ll solve this along the way. He doesn’t even have the energy to be angry.”

18. “They’ve known for years. Decades. It didn’t make any difference. None at all. Because now it’s here and despite all that knowing, he’s lost. Everyone is. They had all hung their hats on the question of proximity. Yes, it will be bad, they’d said to one another, but we have years. We have time. Somehow we’ll solve this along the way. He doesn’t even have the energy to be angry.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “These women haven’t shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy.”

19. “These women haven’t shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “She became an enemy when he wasn’t even looking. Probably because he wasn’t even looking.”

20. “She became an enemy when he wasn’t even looking. Probably because he wasn’t even looking.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “The sun slipped behind the mountains, sending shots of color into the sky like a dancer throwing silk scarves in the air.”

21. “The sun slipped behind the mountains, sending shots of color into the sky like a dancer throwing silk scarves in the air.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “Jack was a minefield, planted with resentment and deadly shards of joy.”

22. “Jack was a minefield, planted with resentment and deadly shards of joy.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “But you are a scientist. You understand how this works. We study the universe in order to know, yet in the end the only thing we truly know is that all thing end- all but death and time. It’s difficult to be reminded of that-” he patted her hand where it lay on the table-“but it’s harder to forget.”

23. “But you are a scientist. You understand how this works. We study the universe in order to know, yet in the end the only thing we truly know is that all thing end- all but death and time. It’s difficult to be reminded of that-” he patted her hand where it lay on the table-“but it’s harder to forget.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “The only thing surprising about any of this is that he’s alive to see it. That’s the real bet they all made, isn’t it? It will come. But not until we’re gone.”

24. “The only thing surprising about any of this is that he’s alive to see it. That’s the real bet they all made, isn’t it? It will come. But not until we’re gone.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle – lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.”

25. “There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle – lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton Quote: “She would’ve wept if she’d had any tears left, but her eyes were red and dry. She turned out the light. “Good night,” he finally called, and he sounded like himself again. She laid her cool palms against the pulsing heat of her eyelids. She would’ve smiled, but she didn’t have any of those left either.”

26. “She would’ve wept if she’d had any tears left, but her eyes were red and dry. She turned out the light. “Good night,” he finally called, and he sounded like himself again. She laid her cool palms against the pulsing heat of her eyelids. She would’ve smiled, but she didn’t have any of those left either.”

— Lily Brooks-Dalton

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