Quicksilver Quotes

“You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.”
― R.J. Anderson, Quicksilver

“I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of-as though it's some sort of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex. I had a boyfriend once, but I never liked being with him the way I like being with you." I held his gaze, refusing to falter or look away." You're one of the best friends I've ever had, Milo. And that is everything to me.”
― R.J. Anderson, Quicksilver

“A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling moment in the shape of a horse, but a horse that was never still”
― Elyne Mitchell

“This is fantastically squalid," said Milo. "We may never get out of here alive.”
― R.J. Anderson, Quicksilver

“I'd hoped at least one of my parents had seen Milo and me standing close together on the sidewalk, still holding hands, as I gazed dreamily up at him and told him that I was going to ship all the bigger transceiver parts to his house. He'd told me OK, but not to overdo it, and could I please get that dopey look off my face before he threw up? So it had been a very special moment, and I was sorry to think that it had been wasted on just the two of us.”
― R.J. Anderson, Quicksilver

“Time is passing : not leaden stepping
But sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping by.”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“The dream's misty wisps floated away like quicksilver from memory.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“But I watched as the
boughs of the universe grew against their nature and aligned in such a way
that you would still meet. I foresaw then that no matter how the boughs and
branches of this tree were manipulated, you and he would always collide.
There was nothing I could do to stop it.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“That thing we'd been searching for: nameless, faceless, shapeless as quicksilver -- it never existed. It was a mirage. We were chasing a ghost and we knew it. There was no destination, just the journey; just the moment. It was all about the kick of the ride. You stomp on that damn accelerator and hold on for dear life. All you can ever hope for is one wild, drunken, kick-ass, mother-humper-of-a-ride. And it was.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS

“Nature is a place of constant competition between individuals in a species, and between one species and another. In this broken world, animals aren't able to rise above violence. But people have the ability to forsake it. People should. People must. But that is our work, Quinn. Not nature's and not God's.”
― Dean Koontz

“Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't.”
― Dean Koontz

“As I wrote earlier, I see every human being as an eccentric to one degree or another. This can be true only if our assumption that there is a standard for normality is wrong. And I believe it is wrong. The human race is at the apex of all life-forms because, no matter how strenuously sociologist and politicians and others of their persuasion insist on defining our species into interest groups and factions and classes and tribes, the better to control us, in truth our greatest strength is in the uniqueness of each of us. Einstein, in his genius, can reveal to us much about the workings of the universe, and a child with Down syndrome can teach us, by his or her profound gentleness and humility, how urgently this troubled world needs kindness. Everyone has something to contribute.”
― Dean Koontz