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“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“I pull into the mall. This is the place to go when you're feeling homesick for California. The rest of the world likes our buildings, contructs with 'character,' but Californians like everything spanking new, clean as an unopened package of plastic spoons.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“Every emotion in the world wishes to be expressed, every task desires to be done. Coincidence is the perfect texture.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“That's the human heart for you -- whatever you flee, that's the thing you are looking for.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“Sex is stronger than doors or windows.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“What was past was history, and you began remaking it the instant it was past!”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“Coincidence. Sex. And the last one is ritual. . . . Rituals align the molecules of the object with the cells of the observer. It is the visceral way of snapping together the attention of the orisha.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys
“Certain accumulations of objects produced, like bizarre batteries, certain charges of energy.”
Patricia Geary, Strange Toys