Chad > Chad's Quotes

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it’s the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“I like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on; rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“to shore, a single bright light skimming over the water. She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The seasons long for each other, like men and women, in order that they may be cured of their excesses.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“The canals went gray and turgid, thickening like blood in the veins of a ripening corpse.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“A physical object could only be in one place at one time. Einstein proved that. Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The rubber plant was ragged and faded, its leaves disintegrating and marked with brown dry spots. Aomame could not help feeling sorry for the plant. If she were ever reincarnated, let her not be reborn as such a miserable rubber plant!”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84