Machine of Death Quotes

“The machine captured that old sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does.”
― Ryan North, Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die

“Might as well ask the once-popular Magic 8-Ball something. It got “Outlook not so good” right. I don’t know if anyone ever asked it about Internet Explorer. ”
― Ryan North, Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die

“You can’t just say what’s going to happen ahead of time. That’s not how physical law works. That’s narrative. And when reality is twisted to fit narrative, that’s not natural. That’s someone making stories happen.”
― Ryan North, Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die

“In fact, Saint Maxwell’s received, and often accepted, applications from preschoolers slated to die criminal deaths. It was just a question of, well, the quality of the crime. You let in the cocaine overdoses; you kept out the crack overdoses.”
― Ryan North, Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die