Peter Clines > Quotes

“Zombies are like credit card payments. If you keep getting rid of the minimum amount, you'll never win.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“I took in a deep breath, and smoke twisted around my head as I let it slip through my teeth. “Do you know what my favorite show was when I was a little kid?”

The look again. “I would have no idea.”

“Doctor Who. British sci-fi show.”

“I am familiar with it. Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt—“

“No,” I said. “The new show’s great, but I grew up on the old one. The low-budget, rubber monster show with Tom Baker and Peter Davison. I watched it on PBS all the time as a kid.”

I looked out at the dark ruins of Hollywood, at the stumbling shadows dotting the streets as far as you could see. The only other living person within half a mile was standing behind me, her eyes boring into my head.

“The Doctor didn’t have super-powers or weapons or anything like that. He was just a really smart guy who always tried to do the right thing. To help people, no matter what. That struck me when I was a kid. The idea that no matter how cold and callous and heartless the world seemed, there was somebody out there who just wanted to make life better. Not better for worlds or countries in some vague way. Just better for people trying to live their lives, even if they didn’t know about him.”

I turned back to her and tapped my chest. “That’s what this suit’s always been about. Not scaring people like you or Gorgon do. Not some sort of pseudo-sexual roleplay or repressed emotions. I wear this thing, all these bright colors, because I want people to know someone’s trying to make their lives better. I want to give them hope.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“Hung herself in the closet."
"Hanged," said Nate.
"Don't be one of those people.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Almost any concept or idea in the world can be expressed through comparison with a classic Warner Bros. cartoon.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“In one of the earlier Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle (not yet a Sir) made an observation on logical deduction. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

There is, however, a specific flaw in that maxim. It assumes people can recognize the difference between what is impossible and what they believe is impossible.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“We're looking for quantum donuts," said Mike.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Nate had realized a while back that nobody talked with each other at such gatherings. People just took turns talking at each other. He never got the sense anyone was listening.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Nobody sane loves working in an office, It’s against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“It had a bow tie.” “Hey,” Clive said, “bow ties are cool.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“The idea that no matter how cold and callous and heartless the world seemed, there was somebody out there who just wanted to make life better. Not better for worlds or countries in some vague way. Just better for people trying to live their lives, even if they didn’t know about him.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“Your voice is familiar,” said Barry. “I couldn’t place it and then I realized you sound like the guy in my dreams. Which sounds very different than I intended out loud.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Purgatory

“I respect your beliefs Andrew, and I'm glad they make you happy. But I'm not up here to be lectured at or spoken down to. Clear?”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Everyone saying something does not make it true. You are old enough to know this.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Communication

“Guess you didn’t get eaten the way you wanted, eh?”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he’d learned, was not to overuse the Look.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“You know when you’re in a rush and you put a T-shirt on backward? Even if there’s no tag in it, you don’t have to look in the mirror to know it’s on wrong. You can just feel it.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Roger nodded. “Right. Getting stuff done to your brain makes your nose bleed. I read that in a book once.” “You read a book?” said Veek. “Wait for it…” said Roger. “Annnnd...fuck you.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“I think,” Bob said, “that a person can always find what they’re looking for, whether it’s there or not. They’ll just see what they want to see.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Koturovic somehow came up with the idea there were some kind of creatures—big, smart, scary alpha predators—living in these higher dimensions. Telepathically-sensitive people sensed them all through history and that’s where all our myths about demons and monsters come from. It’s their presence leaking through. When the dimensional barriers were shattered, according to him, these things would come through and eat everything they could until the barriers reasserted themselves. Kind of the universe’s method of population control.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“I still don’t know if it’s worth living in a world with no more donuts.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Patriots

“Maybe there's a computer down in the basement," she said, "and we need to keep punching the numbers in.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Must you always speak with so many pop culture references?"
"I must, yes, but no one's making pop culture anymore, so I'm starting to feel dated. I haven't seen a new movie in two years. And you know what else I just realized?"
The doctor stared at him.
"I'm never going to find out what the hell was going on with Lost. I mean, was it just sheer coincidence their plane crashed on the island or was it this Jacob guy pulling the strings all along? And how did most of them end up back in the 1970s with the Dharma people?”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Patriots

“Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.”
― Peter Clines, Ex-Communication

“Bro," said Roger. "You're a time traveler."
"No, I'm not," said Nate.
"Not yet, but maybe in the future.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Mr. Erikson, are you trying to imply that I fall for you in every possible reality?"
"I can only tell you, there are a lot of parallels.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“I have missed you,” she said.
“You threw me out a window.”
“To be exact,” said Stealth, “I had Captain Freedom throw you out a window.”
― Peter Clines

“Cattle... it called us cattle...

We're hamburger, you mean.”
― Peter Clines, 14