Chandler Klang Smith > Quotes

“Humans make a city, but a city makes humans tolerate the intolerable.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“But we would not be human if we did not summon monsters into our midst ... .”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“Time gives good advice.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“Dear Diary,

There is so much I have neglected to report. I've grown two new teeth, abandoned my life's one true mission and fallen into something bottomless and terrible... I wonder if it's love.

And now my husband has returned to me”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“He didn't have his top hat on when Swanny met him but he certainly does now. It's an impresario's chapeau, like his limo. Glossy, black and stretched. He wears a sharkskin suit today. He should look ridiculous in the daytime, but it's as though he's brought night into the room with him.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“[...] all the electricity has escaped, seeping out the ends of frayed wires or bolting free from fuse boxes in dazzling sudden starbursts. Though this is the one realm unthreatened by dragons, we have allowed it to decay.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“Abby gazed down into the chrome box. Inside each slot, around each slice of bread, tiny metal coils were glowing orange though untouched by flame. The heat was coming from somewhere, it had to be; in some far-off place, the heat had separated from its source and traveled here, lost, on the wires of forgetting. Electricity: it stole life from nature and brought it inside.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“We believe that we love the places where we live, but this is only an illusion. It is never a place we long for, but a time.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“This is what the world is to them: this little space of enlightenment. , this tiny roving circle of the known. This is what it is to feel lost, if not be lost: to walk into nothing on a path that vanishes behind you. In this sunless place, where the air is still, their bodies keep the only time. [...] The hour of Not Anymore, Not Yet.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“It is a sea of fire, and seas are full of life.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“Someday you're going to realize that there's more to life than making fun of everything you don't understand.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, Goldenland Past Dark

“Now, by night, our city glows with the heat of what consumes it, spells out in neon orange nothing but a last request. But by day, our true city has no choice but to reveal itself: a heavy thing, the steel anchor that tethers our dreams to the earth. The buildings, those pillars of glass and concrete, cast their monstrous shadows over the land, and the movement of those shadows marks the passage of our time.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“... for the first time, it occurred to him [Webern] that maybe God wasn't an old man with a beard, but just a spoiled child.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, Goldenland Past Dark

“Beneath our city lies another city, carved into the earth, a city of hollowness, a city of emptiness, a city of negative space. It's skyline will never be revealed, not until that time in the future when our society's final resting place is excavated and disturbed by a more advanced species. But until that day, we can only know our shadow city piece by piece, by the frail beam of a flashlight, by the touch of a hand in the darkness.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours