Aldous Mercer > Quotes

“Fuck," he said. I couldn't have put it better myself.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“And does Alan have a last name?" I asked.
"Probably," said Curtis, "but we have a 'if you have to ask, you don't need to know because I don't want to friend you on Facebook' policy.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“That's the tragedy of creatures," I agreed. Mine too, if it comes to that. "We spend so long looking for our 'soulmates' or becoming 'one with our higher self'. But all this time the one true love has already happened. We don't remember because there was no mechanism to form a memory in the before-time, but we are its product."
(Mordred)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Your perspective makes me weak," I said.
"Reason always does," he replied.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“This planet is hurting my ability to judge people."
(Mordred)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Devil's got my number.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“<@mori>: My flatmate is addicted to Japanese Cartoons. I can feel neurons dying every time it turns on the TV.
<@alan>: It? That's a curious way to refer to a person.
<@mori>: Perfectly acceptable, for a certain type of flatmate.
<@alan>: I'll make a note of the usage-fascination.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“There is no Demon addiction, no lie, no distance between you and I here. And I am telling you, I will spend the rest of eternity looking for you, and I will find you, wherever you are reborn."
(Mordred)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“What would Royce Ree do?"
--Proverb, Imperial Intelligence Academy”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“I rose to my feet and extended my hand.
"Mr.Vijayagopalan," I said.
"Please," he said, shaking my hand with both of his, "call me Ramsaundarm.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Gravity set the path of the Sun at the moment this Universe was born. The moon was set to spin the day it was cleaved from the Earth. Once divisions are made, they cannot be summed. The sea is not a courtesan, to be fascinated by false magnetism. Mountains had names long before men dared to climb them. All power flows as a river, even, close-held, the power within people.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“ Who does the sky weep for, when it rains?"
Baldasshi Koan

"If we knew, the sky would not weep.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“Our gods," said the Warlord, "favor men that smile before they die. You'll go straight to heaven, Agent Ree."
"I doubt it," said Royce. "The Empire has found no proof of your 'heaven'. And we've looked, believe me.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“Betrayal and love are not mutually exclusive." (Mordred)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“I thought you didn't love me anymore."
Royce's brows furrowed. "What does sex have to do with love?”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“It hurts, being human," I agreed sagely.
"Wouldn't wish that on anyone. Wouldn't want to give it up."
(Mordred)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“A minute and a half on my knees in front of the sub-basement door, and I heard a satisfying click as the lock shifted.
"Damn," said Josephine, "where did you learn how to do that?"
"MIT lockpicking guide.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“If you had the choice, my dear, between a guarantee of obtaining your deepest desire and a vague, vanishingly small probability of love, what would you choose?"
"The two are the same.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“There weren't enough espresso in the world to wash the sour taste of betrayal out of my mouth.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Maybe he could convince Les that they needed to have sex for cover purposes.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“I don't think she quite understands what was truly going on. Things are very binary for her - all this talk of love confuses her." (Alan)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“It's AMAZING what one can find on Google Images with safe search off.
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― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“He laughed, a sinister sound that made some of the people outside the restaurant shudder without knowing why.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“We have a wig," Les said, "two broaches, two scarves, two shirts and a ticking time-bomb in my head. So we're going to focus on the purely visual aspects of the art.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“Party's gonna be fucking awesome," said Curtis. "Right bro? Mori?"
Drunken engineers instead of Alan, capped by an evening of torturous insomnia?
"Fuck yes!”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Demon addiction may feel a lot like love."
(Alan)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Baldessh has no intelligence apparatus. No spies, no automated surveillance, nothing. I have it on very good authority."
<"Maybe they're just so good that we haven't heard of them?"
"Don't be stupid."
--Transcript, Kovan Flagship:"Exchange between Head of Military Intelligence and Kovan Warlord, FTL, Space.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“So many days where we talked ourselves hoarse, believing we were touching each other's souls.”
― Aldous Mercer, The Emperor's New Clothes: An Interstellar Heist

“Sweet gods of darkness, what have I been reduced to? A twenty-something human thinks he can "cast-spells over beers" with me? (Mordred)”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program

“Leave me alone. I locked the door for a reason." Guaranteed solitude? Soothing porn? Did it matter?”
― Aldous Mercer, The Prince and the Program