“...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“All people know the Greater Hunger...It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things..."
"For love?" Renie asked.
"Yes, I suppose that could be true.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“So that's what--one "yes," one "not sure," and one "I had had a dream about a bug.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“...a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“Besides, there was always hope, wasn’t there?”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams
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“when people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose.”
― Sheena Iyengar, quote from The Art of Choosing
“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.”
― Warsan Shire, quote from Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“No one is born feeling grateful; it’s an acquired skill. That’s why traditional Jewish law forbids spending money on the Sabbath. God commands us to stop shopping and count our blessings on that one day because he knows that left on our own, we wouldn’t be so inclined.”
― Wendy Mogel, quote from The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
“Happy endings are reserved strictly for the fiction shelves of bookstores”
― Holly Bourne, quote from Soulmates
“Twelve down, like a hundred thousand left to go.”
― Pittacus Lore, quote from The Fate of Ten
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