Tom's Crossing Quotes

“Some say the universe bends toward Justice, but when it don't, stories mend the trajectory.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“Loyalty is but a shade off from a threat.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“No one talks to the dead for free.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“Kalin couldn't say what unsettled him more: the now obvious deadness of his dear friend or that even in death the dead might still know fear.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“For everyone there is reserved a great journey. That include the dead? Kalin asked his friend. Especially the dead.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“Lucky are them, most will say, whose futures align with the promise of their inheritances. But I’d say they’re the most cursed.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“Of course”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“to matter you gotta set free someone that ain’t you.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“And meat is the only cost that matters to real men.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“The now that passes creates time; the now that remains creates eternity.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“At some point in most lives”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“I’ve rarely, if ever, had a sense of true arrival, let alone of bein at home.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“nothin worse than a great idea gettin in the way of a better decision.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“you’d have to know Church talk better to understand how sometimes just the mention of somethin, however nicely put, is a way to warn you from that path.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“though why men would like to be united by their drool is an unsavory image of allegiance not worth dignifyin here.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“That vest deserves its own moment, but not even a small part of that story will be told. Peace be with you, Morit.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“the laws of the State, the laws of the Church, and the laws of the Land don’t necessarily align, but its in the variance of the in-betweens where most folks live.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“because to inspire high acts of charity requires high acts of deliciousness.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“You ain’t wrong, Landry, but sometimes gettin out of harm’s way means takin the hard way.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“Some say the universe bends toward Justice, but when it don’t, stories mend the trajectory.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“and no matter how well hidden, age always gathers its scars.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“say”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“So many names lost, or for so long misplaced that they became fictions, which is as good as forgotten. Though in the end what name isn’t a fiction? You think yours isn’t? Mine?”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“After all, there’s a long history of substitutin real terrain with confoundin squiggles on paper. Generals are often the worst offenders, from Troy to Thermopylae, Waterloo to Gettysburg, Ypres to Afghanistan. Vietnam, a country that ain’t much bigger than the state of California, presented on paper no more of a military endeavor than some afternoon picnic at Fort Sumter.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing