Dominik Parisien > Quotes

“I’m often amazed by the things we’re willing to endure that we would never allow our loved ones to suffer, and the double standards that govern the stories we tell ourselves. I treasure the ways in which friendship can undermine the poisonously seductive narratives we sometimes trap ourselves in, and I hope this story goes a little way toward celebrating the enormity of what friendship means to me.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“He knew the pills were expensive, too. The VA was supposed to cover part of the cost, and his insurance was supposed to cover another part. But they covered about as much as a string bikini covered a hot girl on the beach. Technically it was coverage, but there was still a lot left over. And unlike a bikini, what was left wasn’t fun.”
― Dominik Parisien, Robots vs. Fairies

“But her anger about it is the anger of a dream, too, where no matter how much your skin itches from the insects laying eggs inside you, you can’t make a noise.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“Falling’s easy—it’s keeping still that’s hard.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“It never stops consuming you, a child; not so long as it lives.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“All that remained was the grand salon harmonium, also the most troublesome.”
― Dominik Parisien, Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction

“It wasn’t a thinking thing, not truly, else it would have survived the blast like me and Ruth did.”
― Dominik Parisien, Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction

“INDRAPRAMIT DAS”
― Dominik Parisien, The Mythic Dream

“If I deflower you before we’re through here, I guess I’ll just have to marry you. Now stop being so anxious and take a slow deep breath,” Roberta said.”
― Dominik Parisien, Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction