17 quotes found
“Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”
“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.”
“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
“You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?”
“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...”
“He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.”
“Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. Theres the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th...”
“[Lou]: Im not talking about the angioplasty. I mean the stuff youre pumping into me. What is it? Something serious?[Nurse]: Oh. This is nothing. Youre not going under the knife today, so you dont g...”
“Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled of piss-soaked diapers and engine parts, and the sink was always full.In retrospect Vic was only...”
“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack ...”
“... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality w...”
“Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willin...”
“Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?""Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said."Nosfer-what-who?"Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accu...”
“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”
“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”
“Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.”
“If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send them o...”
