Gabriel M. > Gabriel's Quotes

“Can I ask why?"
"Why what?"
"Why you're something you're not?"
"We're all something we're not," he said. "Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be and there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Don't underestimate mediocrity... Lasting happiness, I've found, only really favors the unadventurous.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“Everyone needs dreams,’ she said simply.
‘If you don’t have them, they can’t come true.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“If you look into someone else’s dreams, all you ever find are nightmares.”
― Jasper Fforde, Early Riser

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just—change. With nothing causing it.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“They had just sat together for a few hours, politely lying to each other, even if the lies were mostly true.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland

“Don't truth me, [...] and I won't truth you.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“We can never experience death. Death is not an event in life. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland

“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“Escape is a commodity like anything else”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you’re not doing it right.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“You could find out most things, if you knew the right questions to ask. Even if you didn’t, you could still find out a lot.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging