Tim Floreen > Quotes

“The first guy asks the second guy, 'Do you believe in free will?' The second guy answers, 'I have no choice.”
― Tim Floreen, Willful Machines

“I don’t think I chose to be gay, if that’s what you mean. In fact, I didn’t choose a lot of things. Like being the son of the president. Or coming to Inverness. Or even being in the closet, really. All in all, I’d say I have about as much free will as an espresso maker.”
― Tim Floreen, Willful Machines

“Not really.' She brushed my cheek with the backs of her fingers. 'It doesn't mean I don't wish every day that Ethan had pulled the trigger first and blown that other person's head open instead.”
― Tim Floreen, Tattoo Atlas

“I hadn't wished Mom good luck that morning. [...] I felt bad about it after. Even though I tried to be a good son, and most of the time succeeded, sometimes I suspected it didn't come naturally to me the way I knew it had to Ethan.”
― Tim Floreen, Tattoo Atlas

“When Mom spoke again, my pounding heart came to a full stop. 'You remember that Emily Dickinson poem? Ethan's favorite?”
― Tim Floreen, Tattoo Atlas

“Then we turned to each other in the dark and crashed together like cars in a head-on collision.”
― Tim Floreen, Tattoo Atlas