Nathan Lowell > Quotes

“I made a mental note to figure out some way to stop making mental notes and start making real notes. That way I might be able to delegate a few of them, and even remember what they were.”
― Nathan Lowell, Owner's Share

“He nodded. “Oh, ambition. Yes. She has ambition by the bucket but she wants somebody else to carry the pail.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“We can live in fear, or not.”
― Nathan Lowell, Owner's Share

“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked.”
― Nathan Lowell, Captain's Share

“morning brought something worse—lawyers. First,”
― Nathan Lowell, Quarter Share

“Even with all the technology, information, and communications that they had, it still came down to men and women in frail boats doing hard, dirty work over long hours in an environment that would kill them if they weren’t both careful and lucky.”
― Nathan Lowell, South Coast

“He nodded with the devilish grin of a ten-year-old who knows he has a frog in his pocket but nobody else suspects.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“We put names to things we don’t understand and tend to avoid the things with no names. It makes them no less real because we don’t believe in them.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“I prefer to make my mistakes on purpose rather than by accident.”
― Nathan Lowell, Captain's Share

“Still, there was a better solution lurking in my hind brain. I just needed to pretend I wasn’t looking for it so it would come out.”
― Nathan Lowell, Captain's Share

“She has ambition by the bucket but she wants somebody else to carry the pail.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Why?” “Because we make the best use of a limited resource by helping those at the bottom to move up,” she said. “Not by giving those at the top more advantages.”
― Nathan Lowell, School Days

“She proceeded with a rather credible and sharply focused verbal flensing that included commentary on parentage, unlikely applications of bodily parts, and ended with imprecations of toxic levels of insectile infestation of certain body cavities.”
― Nathan Lowell, Captain's Share

“I think order depends more on preparation than control.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“If experience taught me anything, it was that feeling like I had things under control was usually the first symptom of a complete and utter lack of understanding.”
― Nathan Lowell, Captain's Share

“thought it was just because my father is a paranoid, anti-social psychopath.” “I thought you liked him.” “Love him. Those are his good qualities.”
― Nathan Lowell, Milk Run

“As soon as you think you know what’s going on, that’s the first sign that you haven’t a clue.”
― Nathan Lowell, Owner's Share

“If you didn’t drink coffee, you wouldn’t need it in the morning.” “If I didn’t drink coffee, I wouldn’t need morning,”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“Have you pinned him down?” “You ever try to rivet gelatin?”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Damn it, Jimmy, I’m an accountant—not a fishermen.”
― Nathan Lowell, South Coast

“Yeah. Well, I sometime embroider the truth a little.” “Embroider? I’ve seen less needlework on twelfth-century tapestries.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“What I do know is that worrying about it keeps me from doing the things I can do. If I can compartmentalize that by saying ‘Trust Iris,’ that’s good enough for me.”
― Nathan Lowell, Owner's Share

“Natalya sighed and considered what she’d wear. She closed her own door and pondered her wardrobe. She popped open her gravtrunk and pulled down a tab in the top, revealing a collection of weapons. “Accessories,” she said. “This calls for the proper accessories.”
― Nathan Lowell, Suicide Run

“Snakes don’t think like that. To miss their shed skins they’d have to be aware in the same way people were. They’d have to recognize that the old skin just didn’t fit any more and that to miss it would be negating the value of the new one. They’d have to understand that the new skin couldn’t have come into being without the old skin going before and being cast aside.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“She smiled. It was not a pretty smile. It did not make her weather worn face light up. The bones of the earth were her teeth, her breath was the wind, the fires of the earth were alight in her eyes, and her blood pumped with the strength of the sea.”
― Nathan Lowell, Ravenwood

“I call on the Guardian of the South to bless her with the fire of life, to keep her passion alive even as she enters the autumn of her days.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Hermit of Lammas Wood

“Hard to get anybody to learn something when their paycheck depends on ignorance”
― Nathan Lowell, School Days

“I really felt like it was coming together and I regretted that feeling with every step. If experience taught me anything, it was that feeling like I had things under control was usually the first symptom of a complete and utter lack of understanding. It was a lesson I thought I had learned well, but which continued to show me new variations with every iteration.”
― Nathan Lowell, Captain's Share

“Ish, you are, without a doubt, one of the most serious, well-meaning, intelligent, and sensitive people I’ve ever met, but if you ever let something this stupid get this far again, I will personally strap you into a precipitation tank and let it fill up.” “Would you consider doing that anyway?” “Don’t tempt me.”
― Nathan Lowell, Half Share

“What if I find one of the sensor packages failing the VSI check?” “Call me.” “What if one of the pipes starts leaking?” “Call me.” “What if one of the graphs starts changing?” “Call me.” “What if I want somebody to talk to in the middle of the night?” “Call Bev. She can come down here and smack you harder than I can.”
― Nathan Lowell, Half Share