Enid Nickeson > Enid's Quotes

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Science Fiction, is the last great escape.”
― A.R. Merrydew

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“You can’t have trust without fairness”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“una”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: La verdadera historia de los crímenes de la Familia Manson

“And the flames are every colour of the rainbow."

"They can't be," observed Daffy.

"Well, they are," she said cheekily. "Have you been there, that you know so much about it?"

"No," said Daffy, very calm, "but I'd wager I know more than you about the chemical processes of combustion."

Mary rolled her eyes. Did he hope to dazzle her with syllables?”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization--pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard)--which might sound like a hoax, or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: not like an arrow, but a boomerang. (Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy.)”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go.”
― Daniel Keyes