Peter > Peter's Quotes

“no point whatsoever meeting catastrophe with reason when what was needed was our prophets deranged and coming towards us wild-eyed and smeared with shit, ringing a bell, seer and sinner at once while speaking some language from the edge of reason whose message would translate into plain words as we’re fucked well and truly fucked”
― Mike McCormack, Solar Bones

“and it was surely the case also that only machines built to so large a scale and of such pristine alloys could bridge the span between heaven and earth with their song on our account and was she alone in these thoughts she wondered or did anyone else have similar feelings about these machines, this technology which of course they didn’t”
― Mike McCormack, Solar Bones

“I walked down the hall towards whatever bedroom she was lying in I sometimes experienced those few steps as a long journey southwards which crossed borders and time zones, traversed deserts and mountain ranges to where I would eventually find her, my quarry, stricken under a pitiless sun, gasping and parched in some benighted jurisdiction which suffered a rapid turnover of governments, spiralling inflation rates and despicable human rights records – only such radical change of topography and circumstance could account for that gaping sense of distance she inhabited during the first couple of days”
― Mike McCormack, Solar Bones

“You two look like potatoes.”
― Wolfgang Herrndorf, Tschick

“She would employ her teaching skills to ensure the conversation with the spirit world was orderly. She flexed her hands and cracked her knuckles.”
― Andrea Bennett, Two Cousins of Azov

“Our friend, Gor – he’s the bony, old one, by the tallboy – has been suffering strange occurrences, spirit.”
― Andrea Bennett, Two Cousins of Azov

“Ooh, a mystery!’ the old lady squealed, briefly looking half alive.”
― Andrea Bennett, Two Cousins of Azov

“Now there, thought Galia, is the real root of the problem: upset over an unfulfilled vegetable promise.”
― Andrea Bennett, Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story

“Pipple ar pipple”, Galina Petrovna!”
― Andrea Bennett, Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story

“For a moment... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for...she might have been my teacher and my guide...We might never have been enemies at all.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“I’m not your dear girl,” Kasia said, with a bite in her tone that silenced him.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“Don’t stand there like a cretin,” he said. “Take it.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“And so does pity lead straight to disaster.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“... she didn’t even have time to scream, just gave a startled “Oh!” and was gone,”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“The Magnati have all been summoned for the funeral, and I’ll be announcing our betrothal once they’re gathered.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Thousands of miles away, in a crowded theater that thunders with applause for the man onstage, hidden in the shadows formed between disused pieces of scenery backstage, Celia Bowen curls herself into a ball and cries.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“(damned patronymics).”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“If it's possible to grind coffee sadly, this is what she's doing.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“I fucked your daughter. Go ahead and fix my goddamned house.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

“I believe in everything.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“Beneath the hint of blueberries, Alex could taste the wild, winter flavor of Corbin himself, and he’d never tasted anything so intoxicating.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“The problem is that I already love you.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“I’m not sure the world I’ve experienced is a world where curses are quite as . . . rule-based as what you’re describing.”
― Roan Parrish, The Remaking of Corbin Wale

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“You might almost think that the forest is itself to blame for the people leaving its midst, because it behaves like a conqueror, spreading out in the footsteps of its former master.”
― Andrus Kivirähk, Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu

“Goth. Throbb. Murk. Who named these bats?”
― Kenneth Oppel, Firewing

“Adrien knew it was not a strong man whom the whisperers had been searching for. Strong men only drove the world to ruin.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees