Alan Lee > Quotes

“Never let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired, otherwise you’ll do something you’ll regret.”
― Alan Lee, The Last Teacher

“Everything there is contrived. All is an affect. The way your neighbors dress, the way they gossip, the ostentatiousness of the affair, the one-up-manship. Strikes me as exhausting.”
― Alan Lee, Flawed Players

“Not sure how to pursue that while remaining woke.”
― Alan Lee, Flawed Players

“God created a universe in which he limits himself. He can’t go around saving everyone. It would distort reality.”
― Alan Lee, Mackenzie August: The First Boxset

“I said grace and meant every word of it, going a little misty with gratitude. It’s stupid, I recognize it’s stupid, but sometimes the planet slowed for me, where my life and the lives of those around were held in a crystalline drop of time, and I knew for certain the moment was a holy one, and that the hard work and the tears and sweat were a tiny price to pay, and raw existence was sweet, so sweet and pure it hurt.”
― Alan Lee, Bad Aim

“We’ve a surplus of grownup boys, lingering in adolescence until they die and that’s why our society falters.”
― Alan Lee, The Wild South

“In July, Stackhouse and Kaye had been at a honky-tonk bar when a guy wearing a cowboy hat pointed at first one and then the other and said, “A girl with your face, and with your tits, damn, that girl could take over the world. Hell, you could take me home tonight, you wanted to.” Stackhouse took off the man’s cowboy hat and dumped her beer on him and the bar cheered. She kept the hat.”
― Alan Lee, Hollow Girl

“Better safe than shot.”
― Alan Lee, The Desecration of All Saints

“We are aware now that we reside in the valley with the devil. That, while yes we are accustomed to dealing with brokenness and evil, it’s not often we tangle with madness. Sadism comes from one place, and we hide the truth with our TiVo and Blockbuster, because we know the devil is out there and he hurts, and it’s too much for us, but for this dark moment we cannot pretend otherwise. We cannot pretend we haven’t been charged with catching the devil himself and for those who don’t believe in an almighty Creator it is a crushing thing. Because Satan is real and we see it with our eyes and it burns us, but what if he runs unopposed? What if he has no counter? That would be a hell of a thing to consider and I’m watching men do it right now.”
― Alan Lee, Hollow Girl