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Robin Sloan Quotes

born 1979 United States

Robin Sloan (born 1979) is an American novelist.

United States
Novelists

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9 quotes

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

I feel a little whirl of dislocation—the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

And even if I fail—this is always the archivist’s consolation—perhaps I will have laid a foundation for someone wiser.

Sourdough (2017)

Belasco gave me a frank look. “A market in the Bay Area needs, at minimum, three things. It needs fancy coffee, weird honey, and sourdough bread.”

Sourdough (2017)

He has the strangest expression on his face—the emotive equivalent of 404 page not found.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

Thank you,Teobaldo
You are my greatest friend
This has been the key to everything

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

The Internet: always proving that you’re not quite as special as you suspected.

Sourdough (2017)

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)

Attribution

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