The Silver Arrow Quotes

“For a certain kind of person there is literally nothing nicer than eating breakfast by yourself on a moving train with a good book.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“She was young enough that all she had to do was kid things, but she was also getting old enough that she wanted to do more than play games and pretend.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“Privately Kate thought that for a guy in a banana-yellow suit he was turning out to be a pretty sharp operator.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“Right. You might just think about climbing down from there." He was using that cautious tone you use when you're trying to reason with a cat.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“A good human being,” the fishing cat said. “Imagine what one of those could do.” “They could do anything,” the snake said quietly. “Anything at all.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“She was feeling something—a new feeling. Not even a feeling exactly, more like she wasn’t feeling a lot of things that she was used to feeling. She wasn’t tired, or bored, or frustrated, or wishing she was somewhere else doing something else. All that was cleared away. She still had basically no idea what was going on, but she knew she was free to be herself, right here, right now, in the moment. She couldn’t wait to find out what she was going to feel next.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“Don’t feel too bad about what humans have done,” the mamba said with a gentleness in his voice that she’d never quite heard before. “Feeling guilty doesn’t help anything anyway. Humans are animals doing what all animals do: surviving. It’s just that you’ve done it too well, so well that now you have to become a new kind of animal, one who makes sure that all the others survive, too.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“Without those hairless chinny apes, there might not be any invasive species at all.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“It made Kate wonder how such a lazy, irresponsible person could’ve gotten his hands on all that money, but adults never explained contradictions like that. They only ever changed the subject.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow