City of Golden Shadow Quotes

“...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“All people know the Greater Hunger...It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things..."

"For love?" Renie asked.

"Yes, I suppose that could be true.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“So that's what--one "yes," one "not sure," and one "I had had a dream about a bug.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Welcome to the Information Jungle.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“She told him it was not necessary, but it was like arguing with a cat.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“It’s always hard to say just what makes us choose to do something. Especially something we’re afraid to do.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“When she had her own house someday, she would paint it a different color every week.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“So we seem to have come in a full circle. We complicate our life with machines, then struggle to make it as simple as it was before we had them. Have we gained anything, Ms. Sulaweyo?”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Remember that when the greater enemy was before us both, we were your friends.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Falling to a low estate can do that—you see so much more of the world than you did before. You become very aware of how thin the line is, of how little safety exists.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“...a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“If institutionalized racism was gone, the dividing wall of money was as high as it had ever been.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build—but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“If you rely solely on my honor to protect you, you are not the servant in whom I wish to place my trust.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Justice.” Dako said the word like it tasted bad. “When has anyone ever gotten justice in this country?” “Well, let’s face the facts. She was rich and she was white, Jeremiah. If anyone’s murder is going to be solved by the authorities, hers will.” He snorted, whether in disbelief or agreement, Renie couldn’t tell.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“How about someplace on the Golden Mile, after work?” She would have a long bus ride back to the shelter, but at least she could do her groveling for favors in a pleasant atmosphere.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Anyway, dear, that’s it. Just wanted to let you know I was working on it. I haven’t forgotten. And I hope you haven’t become so wrapped up in this yourself that you’re skipping meals or sleep. You used to have a very bad habit of trying to make up for initial laziness with last-moment diligence. Not a good plan, Irene.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“I am doing something, Papa, she wanted to say, but Renie knew that she was not the kind of somebody he had in mind.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“He looked up at her, sullen and a little frightened. “I don’t know what to say either, Irene. I hate to be hoping that my daughter is crazy in the head, but I don’t like that other idea very much.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow