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Lavie Tidhar QUOTES

Lavie Tidhar QUOTES

1 " Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1)

2 " Think of the future, she whispers. Jumbled images in primary colours. White and red swastika flags waving in the wind; gleaming rockets flying into the air; skyscrapers rise above the Danube, the Thames, the Volga and the Rhine, blond children play under a bright African sun, their uniforms ironed to perfection by their servant-slaves nearby, modern women work at factories assembling Volkswagens, in the mountains in a wood cabin Maria and Erich and their three children go on a skiing holiday, laughing, holding hands… "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Violent Century

3 " In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Violent Century

4 " I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Old Dispensation

5 " Somewhere in the distance he could hear a wireless playing Judy Garland's 'Over the Rainbow.' Wolf had seen the film but, had he been the one swept up to the magical land of Oz, he would have raised an army of flying monkeys, stuck the witches in a concentration camp, razed the Emerald City to the ground and executed the wizard for communist sympathies, being a Jew, a homosexual, intellectually retarded, or all of the above.

He did like the tune, though. "

― Lavie Tidhar

6 " Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1)

7 " For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1)

8 " Perhaps it is always summer, in the place where we are young. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Violent Century

9 " Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Violent Century

10 " These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world. "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama

11 " Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war you have no scale for, that you don't understand. "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama

12 " Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet. "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama

13 " The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid. "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama

14 " Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either. "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama

15 " And also they’re just good escapist fun," Vivian said firmly, and Gill subsided beside her, giving an apologetic smile. "To read about these horrible things and know they never happened, and when you’re finished you can put down the book and take a deep breath and get on with your life. To know it’s fiction – "
"Pulp fiction," Gill said ... "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama

16 " Everybody has a bogeyman. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Violent Century

17 " Sometimes people dismiss SF and fantasy for being escapist...however, it is anything but. SF comes from its respective authors’ societies, a reflection of the world’s present, its history and its future. That world used to be overwhelmingly American, but it isn’t anymore, and needn’t be. "

― Lavie Tidhar

18 " I have a lot of time to think. To look at the strands of the past weave themselves into the knots of the present, and to imagine how the future might unfold from them. So many possibilities. Like a game of chess. And you, my little pawn, you are the catalyst, walking through the board one small step at a time, towards...what? What sort of endgame will you bring us all, Orphan? "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1)

19 " Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting? "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1)

20 " Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving, settling in another nest for a time. They seemed to him like a flock that had descended on these tables, pages fluttering like wings, and here they rested in the shade, enjoying the lull, knowing it would soon be time to go on their way again. "

― Lavie Tidhar , Osama