The Exile Kiss Quotes

“Months of torment, relieved at the end by a single minute of good cheer. What more could anyone want?”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“was much easier to deal with hassles while they're still in the yellow-alert stage.”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“Jacques is the kind of guy, if his house was burning in the night, most people in the Budayeen would write him a postcard and drop it in the mail to warn him.”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“Being good and sweet in this life is enough to attract evil,”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“Be cheerful, my brother!" he said. "You're alive, and you're with friends!”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“I hadn't heard such a ridiculous piece of sophistry since the days when the old shaykh who lived in a box in our alley in Algiers tried to prove that the entire Earth was flat because the city of Mecca was flat. Which it isn't.”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“he has this huge blind spot where other people have a sense of humor.”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss

“Madness, by the life of the Prophet! Audran felt as if he were peering through a narrow tunnel, seeing the world with Abu Adil's mean, self-centered outlook. Things were only good for Abu Adil, or bad for Abu Adil; if they were neither, they did not exist.”
― George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss