33 quotes found
“People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.”
“That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.”
“Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs. "Co...”
“Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.”
“Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.”
“Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.”
“The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.”
“Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.”
“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”
“Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop."You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only ...”
“Black as night, sweet as sin.”
“Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...”
“Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.”
