R. > R.'s Quotes

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”
― Dale Cooper

“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“And then the world exploded.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”
― Tad Williams, River of Blue Fire

“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?”
― Tad Williams, Sea of Silver Light

“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The smoke is a signal; it means the Salamander is coming. For she is a war-torn disaster, and her comfort is the gun.”
― R.R. Washburn, Seraphim Ascent

“Faye Elms didn’t become a member of a unit called Red Rifles because she looked pretty holding one. But she was packing buckshot this time, and Orion had no intention of meeting his maker by a shotgun-wielding woman wearing a soft yellow summer dress.”
― R.R. Washburn, Seraphim Ascent

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
― Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And you matter. You fucking matter to me! So you’re not allowed to die, you stupid, arrogant dogdick!”
― R.R. Washburn

“Even when I try to do good I can’t ever seem to get it right, and I know I’ve made my share of mistakes because of that. But saving you was never one of them. I’ll do it as many times as I have to. I’ll save all of you. Just trust me. Please.”
― R.R. Washburn

“I have accepted that the world is a perpetually moving beacon, with a never-ending supply of new possibilities. And there is always room for second chances when you have eternity.”
― R.R. Washburn, Departed: A Dead Man Does Tell Tales

“When they found me, I had no name. Because I had no name, they decided to give me one. It’s not my real name, but I have since grown a fondness to it. Now it is mine.”
― R.R. Washburn, Departed: A Dead Man Does Tell Tales

“Allow me to start from the beginning — with my death.”
― R.R. Washburn, Departed: A Dead Man Does Tell Tales

“What can I say?” Orion managed a grin through bloody teeth. “God loves a trier.”
― R.R. Washburn, Seraphim Ascent

“She moved as fast as her feet could carry her, for what reason she had no certainty of.
The only certainty was going forward.”
― R.R. Washburn, What the Thunder Said

“Stone was fond of the sound bullets made. She was born in war, and lulled by a tune burrowed into her brain that she knew so well.”
― R.R. Washburn, What the Thunder Said