Patrick Lee > Quotes

“Travis considered the larger one below it. A file drawer. Was it even worth bothering with? What could have been in it but paper? What could be in it now but an inch-deep layer of mold dust?

He opened it.

It contained an inch-deep layer of mold dust.”
― Patrick Lee, Ghost Country

“There were sectional concrete barriers along each side of the chasm, plastered with orange warning signs for those who didn’t grasp the concept of gravity.”
― Patrick Lee, Deep Sky

“Every clear night these past two weeks, they had done this for hours. There was something about it that was hard to pin down—some feeling that transcended age, Dryden thought. Under the sky on a night like this, maybe everyone was still twelve.”
― Patrick Lee, Dark Site

“Why would turning off genes give someone a new ability?” he asked. Dena shrugged. “Because DNA is a mess. People call it a blueprint, but it’s more like a recipe—one that nature’s been tinkering with for a few billion years. That’s how a professor of mine described it: an old recipe, where outdated instructions get lined out instead of erased.”
― Patrick Lee, Runner

“The hostility they’d shown in the alley was long gone. They seemed sympathetic, if not quite regretful. Which was fine—it was stupid to regret things that had seemed necessary at the time.”
― Patrick Lee, Runner