A.L. Buehrer > Quotes

“Sometimes the only thing that can make someone feel misplaced is the sight of home.”
― A.L. Buehrer, A Stargazer's Question and Beyond the Ecliptic

“Why do you tell me this?" he asked.
"How can you know who I'm speaking to?”
― A.L. Buehrer, A Stargazer's Question and Beyond the Ecliptic

“It might be true that no man is an island," she said, "but you know those peninsulas that are just connected by a really thin neck of land--a sandbar, even? And sometimes, when the tide is high, they get cut off, almost completely. I wouldn't say that there weren't people like that.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall

“At least if she died doing this she would be dying for a reason. There were a lot of ways to die in Budapest.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall

“She could recognize individual drones better than she could recognize individual people. But chances were the drone that had shadowed her for the past five days was better with faces than she was.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall

“We're not paranoid or anything, but you know that Global Mind's databases are the mind of God, technologically speaking. They see the sparrow fall.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall

“They spoke different languages--languages of homonyms. "Ignorance," "hate," "bigotry," "oppression"--they sounded the same when spoken, but connotations were the new definitions. She and Szofi could never understand each other. The very words they chose would force them apart.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Lightwaste

“Does it shock you that I see through my own eyes?”
― A.L. Buehrer, Lightwaste

“Fine. You don't like my theory. Got it."
"I like it. But it's kind of boring."
"Well. So are you."
"Probably why I like your theory.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall

“You know, something happens to people when they all risk life and limb for the same cause.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall

“In this society simply knowing the truth is a terminal disease.”
― A.L. Buehrer, Dronefall