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1 " A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light. "
― Kem Nunn , Unassigned Territory
2 " It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye. "
3 " It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy. "
― Kem Nunn , Chance
4 " If someone doesn’t care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while. "
― Kem Nunn , Tapping the Source
5 " A lifetime of yearning unwound before him like some lost and endless highway. "
6 " As far as he knew, no one in his family had turned out normal yet and he didn’t see why he should be the first. "
7 " He guessed he could see now, in the darkness of this room, with this new place throbbing around him, how going back could be like dying. It was the first time he had seen it that way; and from that angle, the betrayal was somehow not so huge. "
8 " Every man is on earth to symbolize something he is ignorant of. "
― Kem Nunn , Pomona Queen
9 " People want miracles. Sometimes the only miracle is, I take your hand. That’s the miracle.” A "
10 " But then her stubbornness was connected to her strength, he supposed, and her strength was one of the things about her that he most admired. "
11 " History is coming for the empire. "
12 " We are dreamers, shouting out in our sleep, pilgrims lost in a forest of symbols where no man can say with certainty who he is. "
13 " Chance imagined himself no stranger to the machinations by which people went about establishing the architecture of their own imprisonment, the citadels from whose basement windows one might on occasion hear their cries. Like Houdini, we construct the machinery of our entrapment from which we must finally escape or die. "
14 " We get the place on the right swell, surfing it is one thing, getting good shots is something else. You get fog up there. You get rain. You get clouds. The light is shit. Harmon knows that too. That’s why he asked for you. Radical conditions, a narrow window. You better have somebody who can get the shot. His problem is, he thinks you’re still the one. "
― Kem Nunn , The Dogs of Winter
15 " The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconceivable figure. "
16 " You might get Yahweh and burning bushes. "
17 " That West was long gone, the West of the imagination. "
18 " And he had wondered if it would end that way for him too - one more ragged pilgrim on the road toward some bankrupt enlightenment, endlessly sorting information while the truth rolled on, untouched, beneath his very nose. "
19 " It all took longer than expected and the truck a piece of shit with blown shocks and springs poking through vinyl seat covers and the late light drawing out the shadows in Chance’s neighborhood by the time he and D came finally bouncing up from the Great Highway in the ancient rig, one of many as the afternoon rush hour he’d been hoping to beat lurched into full swing with lines of cars at each and every intersection and jaywalking children with backpacks and cell phones and Chinese workmen unloading fish trucks at competing corner groceries and tattooed teenagers with funny hats on clattering skateboards. "
20 " This is the new frontier up here. You know that, don't you. Undiscovered country. "
