Evan Hammerman > Evan's Quotes

“She turned to Nate, who had just stepped in, and threw the Necronomicon at him.”
― Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids

“Remember the old guy with the bell?”
― Joseph Finder, The Fixer

“You might point to Gone With the Wind and ask me to remind you which of its colorful cast was a canine, and I could say only that Scarlett O’Hara, while not a dog, was something of a bitch.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“I longed to pluck a volume off a shelf and escape into its pages, for even the nightmare worlds of Lovecraft, Poe, or Bram Stoker would be more appealing than the real world in which we had to live.”
― Dean Koontz, Twilight Eyes: A Thriller

“Sheena was loud, crass, self-absorbed, and had the vocabulary of a brothel owner specializing in service to sailors with Tourette’s syndrome.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Whether God’s a Catholic, a Baptist, a Jew, a Muslim, or a quantum mechanic, He gives us compensation for our pain, compensation right here in this world, not just in those parallel to it and not just in some afterlife. Always compensation for the pain…if we recognize it when we see it.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“was simplifying and combining concepts, but he knew no other way to quickly give them a feel for the wonder, the enigma, the sheer spookiness of the world revealed by quantum mechanics.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Great leaders are forged from the fire of hard decisions,”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Gene

“White House Press Briefing regarding the “Flash Flu” Outbreak”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Gene

“images changing from overhead shots of an airport to a hospital with doctors wearing hazmat-esque shields and gowns, crowded sidewalks, bustling markets, and packed-beyond-capacity subways, many of the people wearing surgical masks over their noses and mouths,”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

“In recent weeks, dead birds with the avian flu strain have turned up in Suffolk, England, Germany, and at a Grayson chicken farm in Tennessee, increasing fears of a possible pandemic.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

“but he did recognize Raymond Scott, a composer who had recently hit it big with a series of whimsical, cacophonous, breakneck pseudo-jazz pop tunes.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Married sex is something else,” she explained. “It’s charged to a separate account.” “A separate account?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“According to Chekhov,” Tamaru said, rising from his chair, “once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“And, as Anton Chekhov said, once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired at some point. That is what we mean by “a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“With great knowledge comes great responsibility”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“There was no communion, no passing out of, what, sacred calamari?”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“The postcode did not look quite regular. Some hush-hush Trystero carrier?”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“No, no, no. Not the apartment. I want to go where Eloise is. I want to sleep at the Plaza.”
― Liv Constantine, The Last Mrs. Parrish

“You’re my only hope.”
― Liv Constantine, The Wife Stalker

“Since when, mocks the moon-gray cat, do cats need keys?”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

“Jasper studies the sleeve of The Cloud Atlas Sextet.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“home, he was so far in the closet he was rearranging his sweaters.”
― Brad Parks, Faces of the Gone

“suppose you could say it had been a place of comfort for workingmen and a place of work for comfort women.”
― Brad Parks, Faces of the Gone

“Jesus bloody Christ. Yer Frank bloody Zappa.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“Frank Zappa doesn’t do drugs?”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“John-san—what is ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ actually about?” John pulls a philosopher pose. “I never knew.” We giggle helplessly. “But you wrote it!” He dabs his tears away. “No, Eiji, it wrote me.”
― David Mitchell, number9dream

“He’s a cheese-eating surrender monkey.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end?”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks