“...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
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“Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. Russians, on the other hand, were too orderly by nature to make such distractions appear natural.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“MAke sure she can handle a gun, please."
I whacked him on the arm.
"Hmm, did a butterfly just land on me?”
― Sherry Gammon, quote from Unlovable
“Призраки, гигантские, бесформенные, свидетельствующие о себе разве что смертью, голодом и разрухой - невидимые участники тайных заседаний, алчной сворой теснящиеся вокруг крытых зеленым сукном столов, за которыми циничные честолюбивые старцы решают судьбы мира, они собрали свой страшный многомиллионный урожай и до поры до времени впали в спячку; но сейчас проснулся самый страшный из всех фантомов - уже давно тлетворный дух загнивающей культуры щекотал его ноздри, - и поднял из бездны личину Медузы, и рассмеялся в лицо одураченному человечеству, ибо то, что люди принимали за прогресс, ради чего мучились, страдали и приносили неисчислимые жертвы, оказалось огромным пыточным колесом, которое эти слепцы вращали в безумной надежде снискать для грядущих поколений свободу и которое они теперь, несмотря на все свои "знания", на веки вечные обречены приводить в движение.”
― Gustav Meyrink, quote from The Golem
“Does it matter? He’s going to leave her and she knows it. Do you know what that does to our family? What it’s like to live in that?”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Family
“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
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