Mason Coile > Quotes

“I don’t believe in the supernatural.” “But you’re my creator. And what’s natural about me?”
― Mason Coile, William

“But some days trouble doesn’t give a fuck whether you’re looking for it or not.”
― Mason Coile, William

“An ambitious man strikes a bargain with a demon he believes he can control.”
― Mason Coile, William

“He doesn't normally wish he had friends, but when this thought comes to him, he does. It might be helpful to know a man of his age and experience who could tell him whether his troubles were benign or terminal.”
― Mason Coile, William

“Never stop trying bad solutions, Mission Leader told us. That’s where the one good solution can come from.”
― Mason Coile, Exiles

“me. My life of accomplished vacancy.”
― Mason Coile, Exiles

“I was a lifeguard in college,” Paige says.”
― Mason Coile, William

“Dreams tell us who we are," his wife says, and pulls the chair an inch closer, taps at her chin with doctorly interest. "Don't you think we could all use some help with that?”
― Mason Coile, William

“Alright. How would you describe yourself?"
"A singularity."
"Sounds lonely."
"Really? Sounds like possibility to me.”
― Mason Coile, William

“courage and training yourself not to feel are two different things.”
― Mason Coile, Exiles

“How do you prove that you're normal and worthy?”
― Mason Coile, William

“The only way to find life is to take life.”
― Mason Coile, William

“She’s Paige.

Teller of inappropriate anecdotes, giver-of-zero-fucks fearless. Yes, she’s locked inside this house with a dead robot upstairs and with a piebald wolf-thing roaming around like a toy that escaped its box on a Christmas morning in hell. But what a good story this will make. All she has to do is act the way she would if she were telling it at a boozy dinner party a week from now and everything will turn out fine. Sure, it’s a little disturbing and scary now, but later she’ll say, Worried? Fuck no. I thought it was hilarious!

That’s where she tries to land in any situation that troubles her, hurts her, disappoints her. Hilarious. The word she uses to describe her life in pace of actual laughter.”
― Mason Coile

“For Lily, that was what it truly meant to play God. It wasn’t about making difficult ethical decisions, or setting down absolute rules, or building guardrails. God didn’t do that. God created. If beauty or discovery was the result—if chaos was the result—it didn’t matter. It only mattered that something astonishing was born.”
― Mason Coile, William

“Sometimes you had to wait for whatever bruise that ached between the two of you to darken first before fading, even if, looking back on it, you could never recall the blow that caused it in the first place.”
― Mason Coile, William

“Officer Gold, I can’t tell if you’ve got ice in your veins, or you’re just missing a heart. But I honestly don’t care. You’re one badass. And one badass is the best I could ask for right now.”
― Mason Coile, Exiles

“Sometimes you had to wait for whatever bruise that ached between the two of you to darken first before fading”
― Mason Coile, William