Simon Toyne > Quotes

“Stvari se rađaju. Stvari se raspadaju. A elementi tih mrtvih stvari postaju nešto drugo. Ništa ne traje vječno, a ništa ni ne nestaje u potpunosti. Samo ponstane nešto drugo.”
― Simon Toyne

“We are all effectively made of stardust: same atomic material, same physical properties, all linked by an energy and common origin, whether you call it faith or physics. For nearly fourteen billions years the universe has been expanding, from the Big Bang onward, always heading out, always seeking the new. Everything in the universe has mirrored this inherent nature - stars, planets, even humans. As a species we have spread, conquered, always looking beyond what we already have to what we might attain, even if we risk destroying ourselves in the process; it runs through everything, from an overreaching emperor destroying his empire for the sake of one more conquered land, to the happily married family man risking his happiness for the sake of an affair. Ours is a destructive nature, often a a violent one, but it's not really our fault, we are merely exhibiting the same nature as everything else, the universal urge to expand and ultimately pull ourselves apart.”
― Simon Toyne, The Tower

“He continued to camouflage the horse using methods the native tribes had employed for millennia, then”
― Simon Toyne, The Searcher

“the end of one thing must also be the beginning of another.”
― Simon Toyne, The Tower

“roll when it”
― Simon Toyne, The Searcher

“He’s not a fan of open-plan offices either, modern panopticons that make everyone feel like they are being watched all the time. Jeremy Bentham had developed the idea in the eighteenth century as a type of architecture suited to prisons, insane asylums, and any other institution where surveillance was necessary. The basic idea was that people who felt they were constantly being watched would self-police and be more productive as a result. Now the whole world is a panopticon, which says all you need to know about modern society.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“There is only one good—knowledge; and only one evil—ignorance. —SOCRATES”
― Simon Toyne, The Searcher

“It’s all part of the shitty deal you get as a mother, a duty to be suspicious and watchful over the person you love most in the world.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“that he wouldn’t have anyone to talk”
― Simon Toyne, The Boy Who Saw

“Piles of clothes spill out of half-open drawers and collect on the floor in drifts, what Laughton sometimes refers to as the “freshly burgled look.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“Anger may burn brightly but it fades eventually, whereas grief burns black and is never extinguished.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“What lies behind and what lies before are tiny matters compared to what lies within. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
― Simon Toyne, The Searcher

“energy never dies, it just turns into something else.”
― Simon Toyne, The Sanctus Trilogy: Sanctus, The Key, The Tower

“The track they were driving along ran parallel with the US border, the most crossed national border in the world – three hundred and fifty million each year, and that was only the legal ones. When George W. Bush had been in office he had pledged to erect a fence along the entire length of the border, almost two thousand miles, at a cost to the American tax payer of almost three million dollars a mile.”
― Simon Toyne, The Searcher

“The lift is glass, as is most of the interior of this fishbowl of a building, and Rees watches the floors flash past, the business of government passing through the open-plan offices like food through the gut of some giant transparent creature, often with similar end results.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects