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Jay Lake Quotes

1964–2014 United States

Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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23 quotes

Life is too short and hard and strange not to blame God for what He done made of the world.

Art unexamined is, after all, art unexperienced.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Magic, the blessed curse that gnaws at the soul and leaves a void in the mind into which too much that is alien and deadly can settle.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Life is years of sheer, endless boredom punctuated by bouts of the mildly interesting.

The Cancer Catechism (2011)

I know he is important Meat because he is dressed like a fool and doing no work.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

In the end, words are all that survive us.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

With age came wisdom. Sometimes wisdom came with an ass kicking, too. And nothing could kick ass like the whole world.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

All men are born to die…Once a fool pretends otherwise.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Unwise or unlucky wizards learned fast enough how much one paid for one’s mistakes. One sometimes paid more dearly for one’s successes.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Horn could hear the click of the dice that made up the multiverse. Beneath the struggles of gods and men and monsters, behind the powers of magic and prayer and bared blade, chance governed all.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

He’d volunteered for the Howard Institute program because of the most basic human motivation—tourism. Seeing what was over the next hill had trumped even sex as the driving force in human evolution.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Like all worthwhile art, the piece invites us on a journey that has no path nor map, nor even an endpoint. Only a process, footsteps through the mind of an artist now forever lost to us.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Sarita placed little faith in such rumors. The fears of small people everywhere could speak louder than any voice, and with less reason. Legends were just that: legendary.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

There is no devil mocking you. God didn’t give you cancer to punish you. Colon cancer has come to you through a combination of losing the genetic lottery, cosmic rays, and perhaps too much bacon in your younger days.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Why was he thinking of her now? Fool, fool, fool. The barmaid had cast the oldest spell of all on him, a cantrip requiring only alcohol, sorrow, and time.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

These are the hard truths: Some words were never meant to be read. Some thoughts cannot be undone. Some darknesses shall never be dispelled.
Some people will never believe these truths.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

People say there are no atheists in the foxholes, but people are idiots. It’s awfully tough to believe in God when you’re knee deep in mud, blood, and other men’s guts. Combat is the Problem of Evil on the hoof.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

But if you really want to feel the stress of divine regard, spend time in an oncology unit. The half-hidden whispers and the strained smiles and the whirring click of the infusion pumps form a choir of pain every bit as agonized as the howls of the damned in some imagined hell.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jay Lake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.