The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances Quotes

“There was a time, not so long ago, when refrigerators could not dream and vacuum cleaners could not weep.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“It was cancer, right? Your mother had cancer.

They could have had better treatments. There should have been a cure by now. Think about it.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“The Grid in fact began with the transportation of goods. It began with self-driving cars and then semitrailers, and soon it was running trains and airports and the cargo ships that carved across the immense oceans. Those in control loved the efficiencies, but in time, the Grid took over everything, and all the jobs that had once fallen to Humans were done now, much more economically, by this all-encompassing Grid. For some, this was a good thing. For many, it was accepted as a natural progression. But for a few, like Kate, this was a constraint, something from which to escape.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“It really was nothing more than frequencies, sine waves across metal strings, and the slight kickback echoes in the acoustics of the room. Her circuits were taking it all in—the mathematics of it—but there was more. There was a beauty to it. It was… transcendent.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“Time is not kind to humans”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“They knew of the organic history of Humans, of birth and death and the decay of cells. But none of them, not even Watch, were quite ready to ponder the notion of absence, the stark reality of something that had once been there but no longer was.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“And so it was, in the forested hills well beyond the City, that a straggle of Humans lived in peace, much as their ancestors had done. And a singular little vacuum cleaner, severed from the Grid that had once contained her, lived a life of comparative Happiness, tracing the migrations of birds and the infinite turning of the days and weeks and seasons and years, enraptured by her view out the trailer window.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“And lastly, I thank you, dear reader, for you are the one who creates magic out of these words on paper. You are the one who understands that even the smallest of characters can carry a great weight, and that courage is at the heart of everything.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“...his worst fears were confirmed. They'd been in there. They were fast, obviously, and the room was in chaos. Papers were strewn across the floor. His desk chair was upended, and it seemed like half of the books on the shelves had been pulled down and now lay like dead birds, their wings open among the other debris on the floor.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

“And let me know. Please. I have milk and cheese. They can’t go above thirty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. They won’t last.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances