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21 " Even peasants can build a cathedral. "
― Daryl Gregory , Afterparty
22 " The coffee was terrible and the bacon was ordinary, but the pancakes were avatars of some perfect Ur-cake whose existence until now could only be deduced from the statistical variations in other, lesser pancakes. "
― Daryl Gregory , Pandemonium
23 " ..."I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless—I think that’s inarguable. It’s just that the constant awareness of its pointlessness is exhausting. I wouldn’t mind being oblivious again. I’d love to feel the wind in my face and think, just for minute, that I’m not going to crash into the rocks.”“You’re saying you’d like to be happy. "
― Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine
24 " Pretending to be normal made life so difficult. "
25 " She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it. "
26 " Maybe everyone in the world was this inconsistent, this fragmented. All we could see of each other -- all we could see of ourselves -- was a ragged person-shaped outline, a game of connect-the-dots without enough dots. "
27 " That morning, while Mom had fought with Grandpa, Aunt Sel had asked me to bring her a glass of wine—it was nine in the morning—and when I’d delivered it she’d handed me a ten dollar bill and said, “I dislike children, but I do appreciate decent service. "
― Daryl Gregory , Harrison Squared
28 " We’re different from other people, she’d said. We only feel at home when we’re a little bit afraid. "
29 " Love at first sight is a myth, but thundering sexual attraction at first sight is hard science. "
30 " Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one. "
31 " If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up. "
― Daryl Gregory , The Devil's Alphabet
32 " The business travelers, however, were all business, from their business jacket to their business skirts and their skinny business shoes. They sliced through the crowd of civilians like business sharks "
― Daryl Gregory , Spoonbenders
33 " I haven’t used my dick in so long I wouldn’t know where to find it. I sent it out for a pack of Camels in 1979 and it never came back. "
34 " He lit the cigarette and inhaled gratefully."You want one?""No thanks. Had a touch of the cancer a few years ago.""What kind?""Prostate.""I'm not asking you to smoke it in your ass. "
35 " Divine essence?' I said. 'Hey, I'm Fat Boy, I'll possess a guy and make him eat ten pounds of chocolate in one sitting! Yeah, that's divine, that's fucking deep, that's like ...' I couldn't think what that was like. It was like something, though. "
36 " Just curious? That's a bullshit phrase.” “It's a simple question. How long—”“No, it's a signal that bullshit is about to follow. It's the hat that bullshit puts on before it goes out to get the paper. "
37 " What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth. "
38 " They piled into Irene's Festiva, a car that won the award for most ironic distance between name and driving experience. "
39 " Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader. "
40 " Jesus, he 's blogger," Pax said. "Arrest him, Deke. "