Blackbird Quotes

“The past does not matter. All that matters is what can be done in the present, to change the future.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“The Greeks had four words for love, and I had no idea which one fit, but it was there: real, chemical, inevitable. You spend enough time with someone and your molecules blend. You become part of each other. It seemed like it should be obvious, though it maybe wasn’t, or at least would not be to most people. Would he be surprised? Probably not. To him it would have been inevitable and impossible, both at once. And he would have laughed at my words and ruined my soul.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“When I was eight years old, I was abducted from a fast food restaurant by a man who took me, in all likelihood, because of a small splotch of mayonnaise on his hamburger. And so I believe in neither free will nor predetermination.

I believe in condiments.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“There is lots of plaid, of course. This is Seattle.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“Did you see?” he asks. “Gold is down another seven-fifty. Good time to buy.” “You work for Rupert Murdoch?” “Maybe I just think, you know, society is about to collapse.” “Should be investing in lead then,” I mutter.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“Knowing about something is useless unless you can do something about it.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“Religion is best avoided. The world is bad enough without imagining some sky person made it that way on purpose.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird

“I was beginning to get a sense of what he was doing. What they were doing. In DC, with the subway. On the lake. Maybe even with me, and the man trying to kill me. It was about change. Acting, to cause a desired reaction. Edison saw himself as an agent of change. For all I knew, he had been involved in 9/11, in causing all the change that came about afterwards.”
― Michael Fiegel, Blackbird