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Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3) QUOTES

Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3) QUOTES

1 " The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new myth, a communal idea of something outside a species apparently intent on dooming itself. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

2 " Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right? "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

3 " If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

4 " If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

5 " Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

6 " Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

7 " They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

8 " Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that he rules. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

9 " Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty of knowing one is loved by something beyond comprehension, but also a niggling fear of those who believed too much in anything they could not touch. Believers were the sort to wave pictures of dead fetuses at her when she went to her gynecologist for a checkup. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

10 " The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

11 " She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people's relationships simply by existing, but she will always be surmounted as guys come to realize the virtues of the approachable girl next door. She was, in brief, too pretty to be trusted or had. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

12 " Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

13 " enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from...from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all. He is a legend, a myth. A Jewish carpenter people ignore while committing acts in His name, even as they call themselves believers. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

14 " You have to surrender yourself to the experience. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

15 " Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

16 " She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

17 " The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the government encouraged the UFO cultists to flock there as the perfect cover, since no one would ever believe them. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

18 " Were genuine aliens to find us… the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the requirements of their environment. It was only for the convenience of the costume department of Star Trek that people believed in humanoid aliens. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

19 " I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)

20 " She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night. "

― Thomm Quackenbush , Artificial Gods (Night's Dream, #3)