Peter K > Peter's Quotes

“There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Only the strong, the rich, and the dying think truth is a necessity; the rest of us know it for a luxury.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“And there’s humanity in a glimpse—we’ve always got a copper for a stone idol, but none for the beggar in its shadow.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“We slept beside them, fought beside them, bled beside them. We trusted them to watch our backs and save our asses – which they did, time and time again. And somewhere out there, between one gig and the next, something changed. We woke up one day and realized that home was no longer behind us. That our families were with us all along. We looked around at these miscreants, these motley crews, and knew in our hearts there was nowhere we’d rather be than by their side.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“They listened to me, and looked right at my eyes, and spent money because they were afraid their children didn't know anyone loved them”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“The slope of her eyeliner curved in a cruel arch as her expression shifted from manufactured warmth to unfiltered disdain. I could have loved her for the honesty in that look.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“The whole of him, contained, constrained by the limits of her dilating pupil.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“What are you looking at? What are you looking at? What are you looking at. The words pressed harder, squirming until the lightboard in my chest went dark. I walked toward the South Side stop, feeling the ugly desire to be shouted at one more time, to figure out what it was everyone was seeing when they looked at me.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“Connecting with people had always felt a little like losing opacity, like offering up parts of me that even I couldn't see.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“They looked that each other, the mysteries flowing between them like cosmic ley lines, and I felt nothing.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“I didn't want to hate women. I just didn't know how to be one.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“That was what encouraged me to explain later that I wasn't looking for a serious relationship. It was easier for me to share my body, harder for me to share my life.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“...It was still frightening for her. What halfway decent parent doesn't have a private burst of panic at the sight of their kid visibly deteriorating under the weight of existence?”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“I wondered if this was part of settling into adulthood, shedding the impulse to hate who we are. It was such a bewildering thing; most kids walked their world with full confidence in themselves, proudly announcing that everyone else had better get used to it. How did that get so eroded over the years? Why did we all end up having to learn how to be children again?”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“I didn't feel born into the wrong body, I felt displaced in time and space. And since the rest of the world seemed to think I was perfectly suited to being a woman, I felt displaced from myself by association.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“The concept of gender euphoria was my lodestar, a promise that being trans wasn't just about what felt wrong, but also what felt right.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities