Quotes from The Fold

“Almost any concept or idea in the world can be expressed through comparison with a classic Warner Bros. cartoon.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he’d learned, was not to overuse the Look.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“We're looking for quantum donuts," said Mike.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“You know when you’re in a rush and you put a T-shirt on backward? Even if there’s no tag in it, you don’t have to look in the mirror to know it’s on wrong. You can just feel it.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“I think,” Bob said, “that a person can always find what they’re looking for, whether it’s there or not. They’ll just see what they want to see.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“Back when I was in college, I wrote a short story called “The Albuquerque Door” for a junior year creative writing class. It dealt with several of the same ideas in this book, but with a much smaller cast of characters and on a much less talented level. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well with the instructor’s “literary” tastes, and while I didn’t agree with him on a lot of his points, it left me feeling bad enough about the story that I just filed it away.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“Liquid nitrogen,” said Olaf. “Try not to shoot them.” “Really cold?” “Really explosive.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“We take over six hundred pages of math and force-feed it to the universe through an electromagnetic funnel. We tell the universe ‘I don’t care what you think. I’m lifting my foot here and putting it down there.’ ” “And the universe doesn’t object?” Arthur finished off his whiskey. “Not so far.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“Mr. Erikson, are you trying to imply that I fall for you in every possible reality?"
"I can only tell you, there are a lot of parallels.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“Need some help?” Mike raised an eyebrow. “Are you offering?” “Nah. I just like to ask people if they need help and then watch their hopes get crushed.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“Because it was a New York Times bestseller that everyone was reading, and I had a chance to get you an autographed copy.” “Whatever.” “Cross is the head of the Albuquerque Door project,” Reggie said. “It’s in danger of being canceled, for a couple of reasons. I need you to evaluate it and show it’s safe and viable so I can get another year of funding for them.” “The Albuquerque Door?” “Yes.” “Well, you’ve piqued my curiosity.”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. —NIKOLA TESLA”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

“I mean, Marty really likes it,” Denise continued, “but it just seems like nothing but boobs and snow and blood. And the frozen zombie things. I just don’t get them. It feels like not a lot ever actually happens, y”
― Peter Clines, quote from The Fold

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“Cuộc chiến có vẻ như bị vùi lấp trong biển mênh mông mù mịt mùa mưa, thế nhưng nếu cứ để tâm lắng nghe mãi tiếng mưa rơi trên mái rừng và ngước nhìn mãi bầu trời thâm xám, thấp và tối như vòm hang thì người ta chỉ có thể nghĩ tới chỉ duy nhất nó mà thôi: chiến tranh, chiến tranh.”
― Bảo Ninh, quote from The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

“That evil was a nameless evil, an evil whose name was Gnag the Nameless.”
― Andrew Peterson, quote from On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

“That is what I thought of you, Ellie. Heartless, reckless, selfish, and cruel."
He was back to shooting me when my armor was down. I turned my face away from him, not wanting to let him see the hurt in my eyes. He reached up and put his fingers under my chin, bringing my face forward again, forcing me to look at him.
"Beautiful, sad, wounded, and lost," he continued. "A freak, a work of art, a liar, and a lover."
His gaze was starting to eat away at my insides. Razor-blade butterflies whirled in my heart.
"I hate you, Ellie Watt," he whispered, lips coming closer to mine, "because I still love you after all these years.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Sins & Needles

“He was from that generation—the type who didn’t change things just because they were tired of them, or they were outdated. You bought something, or married someone, and stuck with it.”
― Jenny Colgan, quote from Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“I'd give anything to make things right for you." He caressed my cheek, my hair, my back. Everywhere he touched, the angry fires cooled. I wished he'd touch my heart. "But I can't. I can help, but the hard work is all up to you. If you don't feel real, no one else can do it for you. I promise, though you've always felt real to me. From the moment I saw you jump off the cliff."

"Sometimes I feel like I'm still jumping off the cliff.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from Incarnate

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