14 quotes
I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.
Century Rain (2004)
The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
Century Rain (2004)
She must have walked through life with men like him falling at her feet, squashing them underfoot like autumn leaves. It probably happened so often that all she noticed was that nice crunching sound.
Century Rain (2004)
As always, it was necessary to strike a balance between a cavalier disregard for the rules and a professional understanding that some rules were more flexible than others.
Century Rain (2004)
Why was it never good news that put problems into perspective? Why did it always take another set of problems?
Century Rain (2004)
It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
Century Rain (2004)
Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking.
Century Rain (2004)
“It must be a real one-horse town.”
Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. “It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.”
Century Rain (2004)
There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.
Century Rain (2004)
Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.
Century Rain (2004)
“Until recently we were a trio. Before that, a quartet. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m beginning to detect a trend.”
Century Rain (2004)
No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.
Century Rain (2004)
The simple fact was that she no longer hated them as a matter of principle. It was also a source of shameful amazement that she could ever have wasted so much energy on groundless prejudice, when acceptance and tolerance would have been the easier, even the lazier, course.
Century Rain (2004)
But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
Century Rain (2004)