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The Peripheral QUOTES

The Peripheral QUOTES

1 " They’d started out as a church, or in a church, not liking anyone being gay or getting abortions or using birth control. Protesting military funerals, which was a thing. Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God’s satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

2 " He gestured for it to sit. The bench vibrated briefly in anticipation, shedding drops of rain. The peripheral sat. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

3 " Those fuckers,” Janice said, meaning the football players, “they get me doing hate Kegels. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

4 " terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

5 " I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. —H. G. WELLS "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

6 " a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

7 " Because people who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

8 " Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

9 " Encryption isn’t optional, when we address one another,” she said. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

10 " If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics.” “You "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

11 " So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming, anyway. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

12 " Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

13 " Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.” “I’ve "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

14 " Fuck it. Just fuck it. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

15 " Unstuck her in time, day-sleeping in her bedroom. How old was she? Seven, seventeen, twenty-seven? Dusk or dawn? Couldn’t tell by the light outside. Checked her phone. Evening. The house silent, her mother probably asleep. Out through the smell of her grandfather’s fifty years of National Geographic, shelved in the hall. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

16 " Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fingerling locomotives, yet flexing as she breathed and spoke. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

17 " That evil wasn’t glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

18 " Conspiracy theory’s got to be simple. Sense doesn’t come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever’s supposed to be behind the conspiracy. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

19 " What Shaylene saw as Burton’s primary symptom of traumatic stress, Flynne thought, was his ongoing failure to ask her out. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral

20 " And this other evening light, rainy, rose and silver, and to her left a river the color of cold lead. Dark tumble of city, towers in the distance, few lights. "

― William Gibson , The Peripheral