One Day All This Will Be Yours Quotes

“Everyone dies, after all; every good time ends. Time itself ended. They are doomed, but in their doomed moment they live forever, and at least they had a good time for one night. Sometimes that's all that counts.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“I am the full stop to the sentence that is human history.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“We’re getting along platonically just exactly fine.” Meaning we spent all afternoon throwing things at Plato and it was hilarious.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“You want to fling yourself forwards past the badlands of the war, this is where you end up. And I’ll be waiting for you. Nobody gets by me.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“World peace, man. Forever and forever.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“I honestly think someone invented the time machine just so they could go grab a burger when the urge took them. Anyway, turns out saving the planet by eating soy was a bit of a non-starter given how we destroyed the entirety of history, but it was a good idea at the time.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“In the end there is only one of them left, and wouldn't you know it, it's Hitler. Basically because he's been hiding in a bunker all this time. He pokes his head up, and I set Miffly [the dinosaur] on him. Zoe and I have a fine old hoot watching Hitler get chased round and round a field by an allosaur. It's very therapeutic. And the thing about allosaurs is they can run really quite fast, and the thing about Hitlers is that they can't, not really, or not for very long.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“And I feel my heart grow three sizes, because she’s a bitter sociopath, but she’s my bitter sociopath.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“I put the TV on. I’ve a specially curated selection of box sets, because one thing that spins like a weathervane when you change causality is entertainment, and if you have a deft hand you can collect all the really good versions of things, like the final series of Lost where all the loose ends actually got tied up, or that peculiarly tangled timeline where William Shakespeare, Helen Mirren and Orson Welles got together to make a Transformers movie.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“series of Lost where all the loose ends actually got tied up, or that peculiarly tangled timeline where William Shakespeare, Helen Mirren and Orson Welles got together to make a Transformers movie.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“And they set off the bombs. I remember. Crouching, encumbered, each alone in that great swaddling suit. Detonating the present, burning the past. Because it was a war that had no justification any more and there was no other way of ending it except to end everything else and hope the war got caught in the blast.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“Miffly has a new collar that says I had a blast at Pompeii in Latin, a memento of a short-lived tourist board more prophetic than profitable.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“And Stalin; I go grab Stalin because who doesn’t want Stalin?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“So…” I say. Because there are awkward social situations and then there’s sitting with your intended spouse who is aware you’re trying to murder her and, simultaneously, prevent her from ever having been born.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“mean, if you’re looking for a pointlessly complicated journey with lots of waiting around, you honestly can’t beat an angry Greek man spending far too long trying to get across one of the smallest seas in the world.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“Who’d have ever thought I’d find a soulmate in the end times? Not me, obviously, what with my trying my damnedest to eliminate the rest of the human race.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“But I thought you were twee!” They look at me, perfect eyes in perfect, perfect faces. “You have no idea,” they say, “what we have done to protect our tweeness.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“and Miffly has a new collar that says I had a blast at Pompeii in Latin,”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“Coming from a utopia, of course, he has no idea what sprouts are.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“Everyone dies, after all; every good time ends. Time itself ended.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“We all kept meddling, changing things, changing them back—though not back exactly, just to something closer to the way we thought we remembered it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“They will live and they will die and they will never leave the period they were luckless enough to be born into. And they will never trouble the glorious solitude of my farm.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“If you’ve actually achieved perfection, is introduce the imperfect, just to keep things interesting.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“It’s no fun to pick up skills too fast, not when you’re a man of leisure with all the time in the world.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“Cheating makes life easier and I’m all about that easy life.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“And even if I met a fellow agent who seemed to jibe with me, no guarantee they’d be the same when I rendezvoused with them later and/or earlier (let me tell you, it’s frankly embarrassing to clap your fellow time warrior on the shoulder only to find that, from their perspective, it’s before the pair of you ever met and then they’re trying to stick a gun up your nose and… take it from me, it’s a real faux pas; the social anxiety alone was enough to justify burning it all down).”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“Look, I'm sure you're a very nice girl and everything, but I really need to murder you now. Can you be so kind of drinking this wine, it will be a relatively quick and painless death."
"Oh, well if you out it like that." She said sarcastically.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“The woman’s is Smantha. “Samantha?” I clarify, but no, apparently it’s ‘Smantha.’ I’ve been invaded by chrononautic hipsters.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“This is how we fought the Causality War. A war where you never saw soldiers from the other side, not because you were launching high tech projectiles at each other from ridiculous distances, but because you almost never occupied a common frame of reference. The weapons you launched at each other were cascading chains of historical events, and each one simultaneously hit and caused colossal collateral damage, and did no damage at all, because what was left in its wake was a happy smiling world with no idea there was a war on.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“ANOTHER PERFECT DAY at the end of the world.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours