The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse Quotes

“Oh for crying out loud,”
― Tom Holt, The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse

“No, said a little voice in the back of her head, you can’t. She knew that voice quite well. She didn’t like it much, mostly because it told her the truth, a commodity whose supply had a tendency to exceed demand. For a genuine free spirit, the very best the truth can ever be is a starting point, a fixer-upper in need of a great deal of tender loving imagination. At its worst – like now, for example – it’s a brick wall across the highway, with barbed wire, searchlights and dogs. No, you can’t.”
― Tom Holt, The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse

“If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to saw it up into planks and sell it to a lumberyard, what good is it to anybody? Answer: none at all.”
― Tom Holt, The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse

“Nietzsche’s abyss.”
― Tom Holt, The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse

“When someone’s addicted to hope, it’s sheer cruelty to cure him.”
― Tom Holt, The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse