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“My name is John Creedmoor, and I would like to confess my crimes. Hope you all weren't going anywhere this week...”
― Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World

“I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained."
"Yeah?" he said. "I was young once too.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“Fortune and fame," she said, "always on the horizon. And always some pitfall between you and it."
"An excellent summation," I said, "of my life in particular and of the world in general.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“The world is made up of an infinite number of words, but it contains only a finite quantity of paper.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“Books are good for keeping accounts. You can’t learn much else from them. The world changes faster than words can make it stick.”
― Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World

“Anything was possible. Wasn’t this what she’d come here for? She could hardly wait to step out into the world again and begin to remake it.”
― Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World

“That's the true face of evil in this city," Olympia said. "The true modern monster works entirely through the disingenuous statement to the press.”
― Felix Gilman, Thunderer

“mean to set the story straight, because a lot of things have been said about me or by me that are not exactly true.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“Coffee is my only vice, not counting curiosity and pride.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“Among the hidden and irregular communities of madmen, paranoids, sorcerers, those who had Broken Through to the city behind and above the city of their births, there was a certain community or anticommunity, there was a guarded and untrustworthy exchange of information. They were the wanderers of the City Beyond, the Via Obscura, the Thousand-Fold Path, the Metacontext, die Träumenstadt, the Gears, the Slew, Time Itself, whatever you wanted to call it. (From time to time he’d suggested the Song, or the Chorus—neither caught on.) They bartered maps and keys and rumors of the Mountain.”
― Felix Gilman, Gears of the City

“You have to be careful when talking to rich men. Too much talk of Beauty or Liberation or An End to Drudgery raises their hackles, makes them suspicious. You have to speak in their language.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“When you are small and weak and poor there are times when your soul seems no big sacrifice to be big and wild and famous and free. But”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“If you saw him smile, you might think he was still a young man; if you saw him sometimes when he thought he was alone, he might look a hundred years old.”
― Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World

“He’d been considering settling down somewhere and devoting himself to the serious study of alcoholism and despair.”
― Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World

“Where we know nothing, we must admit that we know nothing, and trust to intuition.”
― Felix Gilman, The Half-Made World

“I tried not to talk politics or religion with anyone. That is the golden rule when traveling in strange country, doing business with strangers, or visiting with relatives. Little”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“I have more enemies than I deserve,” I said. “I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained.” “Yeah?” he said. “I was young once too.” He pushed past me and entered the saloon. III.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“well, there is a lot I could say about Love but I am writing now about History and the two have little to do with each other.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City

“I asked what enemies and he said that the great hidden secret of the universe was that the whole thing and everyone in it is your enemy.”
― Felix Gilman, The Rise of Ransom City