9 quotes found
“Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.”
“Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless”
“Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident”
“It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.”
“Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what hed always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.”
“Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ardor right over," Eliza said. They laughed. The asteroid was a little bigger now, brighter, and still they went on laughing. Laughing in the face of what they couldn't p...”
“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read the...”
“Anita felt like she finally understood why love was symbolized by the grotesque pumping organ, always threatening to clog, or break, or attack. Because the heart was the body's engine, and love was...”
“She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend ...”
