Bob Proehl > Quotes

“Look at all this. It's fantastic. A hundred thousand worlds. What I love most, because I'm a hideous narcissist, is knowing many of these worlds are mine. You know what all of this is, don't you? This is the immune system of the human soul. Superheroes, space rangers, time cowboys, they are the T cells of the spirit. They were always here to save us. We made them to save us.”
― Bob Proehl, A Hundred Thousand Worlds

“There was no conspiracy, his grandfather said, but a consensus that the truth was not a thing to be spoken.”
― Bob Proehl, The Nobody People

“Part of the job of adults was to set limits. But the last rule, the unspoken rule of any story or journey, is that all limits are suspect. All warnings show only the point where the last story stopped, the boundary past which the map is unmapped. The Kingdom of Here There Be Dragons is the province of explorers, magicians, and kids.”
― Bob Proehl, A Hundred Thousand Worlds

“Alex thinks of their car traveling across a green sea. Traveling is the strongest magic word he knows. That and home.”
― Bob Proehl, A Hundred Thousand Worlds