Thomas > Thomas's Quotes

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“We all float down here!”
― Stephen King, It

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Like a horseman who reins in a wild stallion that has borne him, will he, nill he, across several counties; or a ship's captain who, after scudding before a gale through a bad night, hoists sail, and gets underway once more, navigating through unfamiliar seas- thus Dr. Daniel Waterhouse, anno domini 1685, watching King Charles II die at Whitehall Palace.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts”
― Anonymous

“Life, some said, is a railway station where one almost always enters, or gets put into, the wrong carriage.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Labyrinth of the Spirits

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises