The Fold Quotes

“Almost any concept or idea in the world can be expressed through comparison with a classic Warner Bros. cartoon.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“We're looking for quantum donuts," said Mike.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“I think,” Bob said, “that a person can always find what they’re looking for, whether it’s there or not. They’ll just see what they want to see.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“You know when you’re in a rush and you put a T-shirt on backward? Even if there’s no tag in it, you don’t have to look in the mirror to know it’s on wrong. You can just feel it.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he’d learned, was not to overuse the Look.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Mr. Erikson, are you trying to imply that I fall for you in every possible reality?"
"I can only tell you, there are a lot of parallels.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Back when I was in college, I wrote a short story called “The Albuquerque Door” for a junior year creative writing class. It dealt with several of the same ideas in this book, but with a much smaller cast of characters and on a much less talented level. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well with the instructor’s “literary” tastes, and while I didn’t agree with him on a lot of his points, it left me feeling bad enough about the story that I just filed it away.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Liquid nitrogen,” said Olaf. “Try not to shoot them.” “Really cold?” “Really explosive.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Mike glanced at the two computer towers lying half-autopsied on her kitchen table. One had a bag of chips in it, the top held shut with a binder clip. A stack of motherboards rested on the chair in Mylar bags.

“Maid’s been on vacation, I see,” said Mike.

“Yeah. She ran off with the guy who writes your jokes.”

“Ouch.”

“There’s a postcard from them here somewhere. Want me to look for that instead?”

“No, no. Just the logs will be fine.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“You’re being a jerk.” “Yes. It’s in my job description. Paragraph six, subsection two.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“The moment passed.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Another second passed.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“It takes a lot to disturb us, sir,” said Black. “We’re Marines.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Or he’d have a movie deal with SyFy,” Sasha said.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Hail Hydra.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Another moment passed.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“A moment passed.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“The answer to the equation,” he said. “Is it forty-two? Is it four-eight-fifteen-sixteen-twenty—” Jamie”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“You haven’t made a doorway,” said Mike. “You’ve created a huge, interdimensional croquet set.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Well," Mike said. "That was disturbing.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Need some help?” Mike raised an eyebrow. “Are you offering?” “Nah. I just like to ask people if they need help and then watch their hopes get crushed.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“We take over six hundred pages of math and force-feed it to the universe through an electromagnetic funnel. We tell the universe ‘I don’t care what you think. I’m lifting my foot here and putting it down there.’ ” “And the universe doesn’t object?” Arthur finished off his whiskey. “Not so far.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. —NIKOLA TESLA”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“I mean, Marty really likes it,” Denise continued, “but it just seems like nothing but boobs and snow and blood. And the frozen zombie things. I just don’t get them. It feels like not a lot ever actually happens, y”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Because it was a New York Times bestseller that everyone was reading, and I had a chance to get you an autographed copy.” “Whatever.” “Cross is the head of the Albuquerque Door project,” Reggie said. “It’s in danger of being canceled, for a couple of reasons. I need you to evaluate it and show it’s safe and viable so I can get another year of funding for them.” “The Albuquerque Door?” “Yes.” “Well, you’ve piqued my curiosity.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold