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1 " Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death… "
― Matt Ruff , Bad Monkeys
2 " described the Internet as “a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd’s son, spewing bile at both ends "
― Matt Ruff , The Mirage
3 " But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. ""But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does.""No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart. "
― Matt Ruff , Lovecraft Country
4 " Hi," I said. "I'm the last of the Brontë sisters. "
5 " The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead man as the natural order of things. "
6 " I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit. "
7 " Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast. "
8 " But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad. "
9 " That’s the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you’re helpless to help him. Nothing worse than that. Nothing worse. "
10 " Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own. "
11 " George sat on his porch, and drank his Coke and made daydreams out of the rain. He wondered about the book he would write this year, and he wondered - not too desperately - whether love would find him at last and let him rest for a time. But he smiled all the while he was thinking about it, because at the core he was happy enough just to be alive and watching the storm, and this one thing made him special. "
― Matt Ruff , Fool on the Hill
12 " A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she’d be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act. "
13 " White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some reason they did try to hide their feelings, they generally exhibited all the guile of five-year-olds, who cannot imagine that the world sees them other than as they wish to be seen. "
14 " Omnes mundum facimus. "
15 " What you going to do?" she cried. "You break my neck, and the what? You think I won't come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you. "
16 " Warren Dandridge had insisted that poker was a Christian game: Players who practiced virtue-- learning and respecting the odds, keeping their emotions in check, managing their bankrolls intelligently-- tended to prosper, while those who succumbed to vice-- chasing long shots, letting passion rule reason-- went the way of all unrepentant sinners. "
17 " Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around. "
18 " ...to acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it."Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order "
― Matt Ruff
19 " Oh, what? You’re too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that’s logical "
20 " the real reason he’d keep running into monsters was because he was black, and when you’re black in America, there’s always a monster. Sometimes it’s Lovecraftian Elder Gods; sometimes it’s the police, or the Klan, or the Registrar of Voters. "
