29 quotes
You know, there’s one thing about you that always astonishes me. The longer you talk, the wronger you get.
The Native Star (2010)
Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
I don’t think that’s the answer he was looking for. It’s not the answer I was looking for. But maybe it’s the right one.
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
Could one die from boredom, she wondered? From complete, oppressive, crushing, unmitigated boredom, the likes of which made all other boredom seem like ecstasy’s sweet thrilling embrace? And in such a case, if one happened to have a life insurance policy, would it pay?
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
“I’m sorry Mr. Stanton, really I am. I didn’t mean to miss it. Things...happened.”
“Oh, well. Things happened. How nice to have that cleared up.”
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
Spread out before the pyramid, as far as the eye could see, stretched a frozen ocean of blackness—stinking oily blackness that bubbled and churned. Voider than void, colder than cold, deader than dead.
It is your world.
It is the world we will make for you.
The Hidden Goddess (2011)
She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.
The Native Star (2010)