Arc d'X Quotes

“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of time and memory, called history, the dreams began to come.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X

“He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn't have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn't last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when he was too innocent to know he wasn't free.
Now he seized the power that came from that collision of sex with freedom called love.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X

“There it was . . . a missing day that lay between the thirty-first of December 1999, and the first of January 2000.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X

“The obscure discovery of a reclusive mathematician in Cornwall forty years earlier who had found a missing number between nine and ten.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X

“The gravity of authority versus the entropy of freedom, the human race's opposing impulses devouring each other.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X

“Everything that's truly irrevocable finally has to do with love or freedom, but whether you act in the name of the first or the second, one of them ultimately bows to the other and that's the most irrevocable thing of all.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X

“Even as the fact of it becomes more overwhelming, more unbearable, some things are irrevocable, if not circumstantially then in the heart and memory, the heart and memory being the only two things that can puncture the flow of time through which hisses the history of the future.”
― Steve Erickson, Arc d'X