V.R. Ling > Quotes

“Thomas didn't usually mind Thursdays but this had been the sort of day that would eat the last biscuit in the tin and put the lid back on.”
― V.R. Ling, King Street Run

“He didn’t show any obvious signs of the Black Death but it would have suited him.”
― V.R. Ling, King Street Run

“Without realising how far he had walked or how quickly he had walked it, there stood the imposing edifice of Emmanuel, rising like an iceberg - the frozen water variety not the vegetable - from the bustling metropolitan sea.”
― V.R. Ling, King Street Run

“You're becoming superfluous to your own existence.”
― V.R. Ling, King Street Run

“Despite what the SIS:TUM implies, not everything is a business. Not everything is for sale. There are swathes of potential students with first class minds who can't meet the Faustian deal passed off as tuition fees, so instead of formulating scientific hypotheses or writing the next great masterpiece, they're on zero hour contracts stacking the shelves in supermarkets...”
― V.R. Ling, King Street Run

“The status quo is maintained by one side pretending they’re not doing anything nefarious even though they very obviously are, and the other side pretending they haven’t noticed. The result is a string of barely functioning societies built around shareholder profit.” He leaned against the podium, a detached, fed up air about him, “Not noticing things is a singularly human skill.”
― V.R. Ling, Paradox Lost

“They thrived on positivity and the cut of this suggestion’s jib was very much to their liking, a tiny primordial good emerging from the bin juice of Earth. The Council were thrilled to have call to smile again.”
― V.R. Ling, Paradox Lost

“It was a hypnic jerk of a voice, the falling sensation replaced by whatever direction led away from it quickest.”
― V.R. Ling, Paradox Lost

“The ignorant are not afraid of the dark, but terrified of what the light reveals.”
― V.R. Ling, Paradox Lost

“Although one cannot ignore the very obvious fact that humans have cornered the market in nurturing affairs inimical to their best interests. They’ve layers of government devoted to planning how to monetise the breakdown of life as they know it.” He tutted, “Think tanks. And yes, there’s an irony in the name.”
― V.R. Ling, Paradox Lost