“...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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“Dear girl with the red scarf,
People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won’t give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.
-Mr. Universe.”
― Maria La Serra, quote from The Proverbial Mr. Universe
“I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport do they do that, Dad. There's no other sport where they put the errors on the freaking scoreboard for everybody to look at. They don't even have errors in other sports. They have fouls. They have penalties. Those are things that players could get on purpose, you know. But in baseball they keep track of how many accidents you have.'
* * *
Errors . . . Well, they are a part of life, Ethan,' he tried to explain. 'Fouls and penalties, generally speaking, are not. That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors.'
But Dad, you're a grown-up,' Ethan reminded him. 'A kid's life isn't supposed to be that way.”
― Michael Chabon, quote from Summerland
“Oscar had a straightforward, dimpled, happy smile. It was one of the hundreds of great things about him.
And after that we were best friends. It had been as simple and inevitable as the striking of a match.”
― Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, quote from The Apple Tart of Hope
“The uproar among the masses would be suppressed, then the information discredited and forgotten.”
― Julian North, quote from Age of Order
“Can’t get you out of my mind, Lex. Doesn’t matter how hard I try, I can’t get you out. You’ve gotten under my skin. So deep. So fucking deep.”
My fingers sank into the bristling muscle of his shoulders. “Why would you want to stop thinking of me? Don’t you feel this?”
His voice was pained. “Don’t you get it yet? That’s the problem. I feel everything. I want you so goddamned bad, and I can’t ever have you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Stand
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