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The Library at Mount Char QUOTES

The Library at Mount Char QUOTES

1 " Carolyn – I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?”
“An innocent heart? In America?” She hesitated. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

2 " The only real escape from hell is to conquer it. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

3 " Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

4 " In the Library you took your good times where you could find them. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

5 " As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now. He chanted it to himself in cell blocks and dingy apartments, recited it like a litany, ripped himself to rags against the sharp and ugly poetry of it. It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

6 " Are you a Buddhist?"
"No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

7 " Steve looked through the scope. The house was quiet now. Thin trickles of smoke leaked from the windows. As he watched, Mrs McGillicutty staggered outside. She was bloody and dazed, but very much alive. “Hey, there’s the old lady! What’s that she’s holding?”
Carolyn took the scope and looked for herself, then handed it back. “Muffins. She’s got muffins. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

8 " We’re still waiting on the lab work.”
“It was a shotgun what did it, though. The same one?”
Dorn popped an eyebrow. “Good eye. You in forensics?”
“Not really.” He had killed a lot of people with shotguns. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

9 " Aren’t you violating the building codes? Or the laws of physics? "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

10 " There might be others,” Alicia said. “Some of the ones we don’t see much. Q-33 North, maybe?” But she was looking at Nobununga, thoughtful.
“Is he the one with the tentacles?”
“No, that’s Barry O’Shea. Q-33 North is the sort of iceberg with legs, remember? Up in Norway?”
“Oh, right. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

11 " You're really extra fuckin special under arrest "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

12 " OK, think of it this way. Do you know how microwaves work?”
“No.”
“It’s based on microwaves.”
“Oh, wait. I just remembered. I do know how microwaves work, and what you’re saying is bullshit.”
“Fine. It isn’t microwaves. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

13 " One such was the notion of uzan-iya,
which was what they called the moment when an innocent heart first contemplated the act of murder. To the Atul, the crime itself was secondary to this initial corruption. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

14 " She knew every word that had ever been spoken, but she could think of nothing to say that might ease his grief. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

15 " Step into the darkness with me, child... I will make of you a God. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

16 " She felt his gaze fall from her as if it were a physical thing. This is how the field mouse feels, when the shadow of the hawk passes him by. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

17 " Are you a Buddhist?'
'No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

18 " In the service of my will, I have emptied myself. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

19 " No matter how many mysteries you solve, there’s always a deeper mystery behind it. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

20 " She thinks that if her son were to come home now it would be like waking from a dream. She would feel again. But the boy will not come home, and though she will not allow herself to know this, she knows it anyway. And so she makes brownies for the memory of her baby. She can’t help herself—faint comfort is better than no comfort at all, you see? Her world is very cold, and this is the thing she warms herself over with. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char