Jeffrey Lang > Quotes

“You can’t battle life,’ she said. ‘You have to learn to treat it like a waltz and your problems are your partner. Step lightly, try to keep time with the music and smile.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Immortal Coil

“The universe is kinder than any of us has any reason to expect.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Cohesion

“Once a scientist, now Moriarty had found his true calling: he was a sorcerer. And all it had cost him was the memory of color.”
― Jeffrey Lang, The Light Fantastic

“Luck’s more like it.” “Luck is a kind of talent.”
― Jeffrey Lang, The Light Fantastic

“You want to know something, Professor?” he asked. “I’ve never been lucky. Not in that way.” “Hmph,” Vaslovik said, almost smiling. “You’re probably a better person for it.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Immortal Coil

“Sometimes, he decided, the important question was not “What happened?” but “How did it happen?”
― Jeffrey Lang, Immortal Coil

“You two don’t spend enough time around real people,” Vaslovik sighed. “Spite, gentlemen. Sour grapes. Whoever—whatever—this was, he had gotten clean away and someone shot him in the back just as the doors were swinging shut behind him. That’s a lot of anger, a lot of hate.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Immortal Coil

“Hemingway wrote, ‘The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Immortal Coil

“Maybe this is all hindsight, but when I look back, I see that Ben’s life was like a refiner’s fire. Things that would have ground down any other man only made Benjamin stronger and sharper. Hardship purified him. He took the heat and he made it his own and at the core of it was the fact that he never ceased questioning his motivations, his desires and fears.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Abyss: Section 31

“So far,” McAdams admitted. “That could change. I just can’t shake the feeling that something, someone, wants us to believe in a version of reality that would make our lives much easier. One thing I’ve learned, Commander, is that whenever something looks easy, it’s probably a lie. Life isn’t that convenient. It’s … complicated.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Immortal Coil