The Stars Malign Quotes

“We'd been drinking for something like fourteen hours straight when the moment had come, the bell, so to speak, was tolling, and it was time for me to leave Oslo behind.”
― Loren Niva, The Stars Malign

“Einstein once defined insanity - and I paraphrase here - as trying the same thing over and over, and expecting different results each time. By that standard, I was one batshit crazy motherfucker.”
― Loren Niva, The Stars Malign

“Really, Steve?" Clare pouts hideously as I scoop up the remnants of my eighteen-carat gold flecked lobster frittata. "How can you act like this? I mean, why are you so cold, anyway?
Why?
Does the hawk consider the plight of the fieldmouse? Did the Titans of old concern themselves with the affairs of mere mortal men?”
― Loren Niva, The Stars Malign

“Pearl Strand is palm trees and neon-bathed boulevards. It's puttering Rascals and mid-afternoon dinners, geriatrics and leathery tans... Rollerblades and hot pants, pleasure piers and rampant alcoholism. It is glitzy nightclubs and dark, dank bars, ubiquitous leopard print, streets that teem with underlying antagonism. It is life transitioning into death. And it is my home. No matter how fast or far I run, the Strand is the gaudy Technicolor anchor I cannot escape. My cradle. My balmy, open grave.”
― Loren Niva, The Stars Malign

“Who am I? I am the egotist. The user. The perpetual malcontent. A distant blot on a hazy horizon. I am a virus. And I am something more. My name is Loren. I am pervasive. I give shape to the night. If you see me, know that I am already dead. I am the hard, cold light of the stars.”
― Loren Niva, The Stars Malign