Gregory > Gregory's Quotes

“she had offered some B-movie about a snake, in which Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube emerge heroic, yet all their efforts center on helping the injured blond hero, just as Sigourney Weaver had battled aliens to save a similarly comatose white male.”
― Laura Lippman, To the Power of Three

“Macrobius”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Religious liberals are in one sense even farther in spirit from scientists than are fundamentalists and other religious conservatives. At least the conservatives, like the scientists, tell you that they believe in what they believe because it is true, rather than because it makes them good or happy. Many religious liberals today seem to think that different people can believe in different mutually exclusive things without any of them being wrong, as long as their beliefs “work for them.” This one believes in reincarnation, that one in heaven and hell; a third believes in the extinction of the soul at death, but no one can be said to be wrong as long as everyone gets a satisfying spiritual rush from what they believe. To borrow a phrase from Susan Sontag, we are surrounded by “piety without content.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“leaned over the railing, gripping the metal, and heard a muffled cry and the flapping of fabric retreating downward at terminal velocity. He”
― W.J. Davies, Silo Submerged

“With the intermittent electricity supply they'd had to deal with the last few months, it was no wonder things were going haywire.”
― W.J. Davies, Silo Submerged

“Her concern for Jacob had overridden her other senses, and she realized she’d been weary of this woman – Clarissa – for the entirety of the exchange. Something rang terribly false.”
― Michael David Anderson, The Cleaner

“wouldn’t leave potential marking.”
― Michael David Anderson, The Cleaner

“It came without warning from the direction of the sun, thereby alluding the ability of astronomers to spot it in advance,”
― David P. Forsyth, Impact

“Mr. Cohn looked askance at the Captain, received a nod, and replied, “I can vouch for my security team, and I know the Captain can count on the loyalty of a majority of the crew,”
― David P. Forsyth, Impact

“He reigns in the snark, even when they leave themselves wide open to it.”
― Ann Christy, Saving Earth

“I have zero idea why anyone would purposefully put something that smells that bad into their body.”
― Ann Christy, Savannah Slays

“First delivered one of the most profoundly impactful sermons in history the next day.”
― Ann Christy, And Then Begin Again: Six Tales of Hope

“As the silence between them lengthened, Eldora tried a different tact.”
― Ann Christy, And Then Begin Again: Six Tales of Hope

“The border we need is over the Mighty Miss and those bridges were purposefully destroyed a long time ago.”
― Ann Christy, Strikers

“tormentous”
― Jason Gurley, The Man Who Ended the World

“We left a bicycle at the station this morning. If you do the right thing by me I won’t be able to ride it, but it’s there, anyway.”
― Nevil Shute Norway, On The Beach

“Only the drunks remained, reeling down the pavements aimlessly or lying down to sleep.”
― Nevil Shute Norway, On The Beach

“Guns weren’t a stranger to Frank,”
― Mike Kraus, No Sanctuary Box Set: The Complete No Sanctuary Series - Books 1-6

“old takeout boxes and dirty dishes that have yet to be washed.”
― Mike Kraus, No Sanctuary Box Set: The Complete No Sanctuary Series - Books 1-6

“Both men had remarkable success in holding a tenuous grasp on the loyalty of native villages. Though their presence was known by hundreds of people in dozens of villages, none betrayed them to the Japanese.”
― Ian W. Toll, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944

“As Don Louis led them towards Isabella’s chambers, he explained to Alvero that their arrival was particularly fortuitous.”
― Howard Fast, Torquemada: A Novel

“candelabras.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“It was late May,”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“candelabras,”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“Except it’ll still be summer,” Plum said. “Backward seasons.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“I don’t know,” Lucy said loyally, raising the flag for the backlash to the backlash. “I mean, come on, guys. He’s only what—forty?” “He’s thirty,” Plum said. “Sorry. It’s hard to tell with the, you know, the hair. I just meant that we’re not in Humbert Humbert territory here.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“Because, see, any amount of intimate there would be, you know—” Chelsea wrung her hands frantically. “Squick.” “I don’t know,” Lucy said loyally, raising the flag for the backlash to the backlash. “I mean, come on, guys. He’s only what—forty?” “He’s thirty,” Plum said. “Sorry. It’s hard to tell with the, you know, the hair. I just meant that we’re not in Humbert Humbert territory here.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

“By the time he was thirteen it was all over. Edward’s gift evaporated like dew in the harsh dawn of puberty, painlessly and almost overnight, and though afterwards he could clearly remember what it was like to wander through those gleaming mental corridors, the doors to that secret edifice were now firmly closed, the silver key lost, the path overgrown, never to be found again. His ranking plummeted, and his matches became a series of tearful early concessions.”
― Lev Grossman, Codex

“Some had Walkmen”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible