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Daryl Gregory QUOTES

Daryl Gregory QUOTES

1 " The problem with getting old was that each day had to compete with the thousands of others gone by. How wonderful would a day have to be to win such a beauty contest? To even make it into the finals? Never mind that memory rigged the game, airbrushed the flaws from its contestants, while the present had to shuffle into the spotlight unaided, all pockmarked with mundanities and baggy with annoyances. "

― Daryl Gregory , Spoonbenders

2 " Fucking is not an adequate name for what we just did there,' Irene said. 'We need a better word. Something more festive.'

'Fucktivities?' he offered.

'Celebratio,' she said.

'Funnilingus! "

― Daryl Gregory , Spoonbenders

3 " A monster crosses over into the everyday world. The mortals struggle and show great courage, but it’s no use. The monster kills first the guilty, then the innocent, until finally only one remains. The Last Boy, the Last Girl. There is a final battle. The Last One suffers great wounds, but in the final moment vanquishes the monster. Only later does he or she recognize that this is the monster’s final trick; the scars run deep, and the awareness of the truth grows like an infection. The Last One knows that the monster isn’t dead, only sent to the other side. There it waits until it can slip into the mundane world again. Perhaps next time it will be a knife-wielding madman, or a fanged beast, or some nameless tentacled thing. It’s the monster with a thousand faces. The details matter only to the next victims. "

― Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine

4 " The rhythm of breath may have been our first language. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

5 " I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

6 " Everything beautiful hurts. "

― Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine

7 " The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators. "

― Daryl Gregory , Harrison Squared

8 " You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'. "

― Daryl Gregory , Harrison Squared

9 " For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.

He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard. "

― Daryl Gregory , Raising Stony Mayhall

10 " Duty eats free will for breakfast. "

― Daryl Gregory , Spoonbenders

11 " There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

12 " He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window -- universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

13 " The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being. "

― Daryl Gregory , Pandemonium

14 " That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It was a gift, really. A necessary distancing. It felt immoral to put a loved one underground, but to bury some husk they’d left behind? No problem. It’s easy to throw out leftovers. "

― Daryl Gregory , Revelator

15 " He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors? "

― Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine

16 " The rabbit is already in the hat. Do not clap for fucking Tinkerbell. Believe nothing. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

17 " He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexico City rooftops, the green fins popping up in Florida beach sand like sharks coming ashore. Every shell that struck Earth, and some that hit the surface of the water, cracked and sent millions of seeds into the air or into the oceans. "

― Daryl Gregory , Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

18 " The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in want of a matching strand of DNA. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

19 " I will admit to fucking a zucchini when I was in high school. For years I thought I was a vegesexual. "

― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty

20 " He was upright, so was that holding up? "

― Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine