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“The actual story of Damoclēs and his monarch Dionysius is of no relevance here, except, that is, for the punch line, which left Damoclēs sitting at dinner beneath a naked sword suspended from the ceiling by a single thread. The moral of the legend being that a person’s situation in life is always chancy. Another moral might have been that if you find yourself at dinner with a sword hanging over your head, move seats.”
― Stark: Satirical Thriller
― Stark: Satirical Thriller
“I understood her disbelief. People you love deeply become elemental. To hear they won’t be there any more is like hearing the air or ocean won’t be. It feels like a fatal disruption to the universe.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“hadn’t I learned that lesson? Sunday school stories are just another type of superhero comic. Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“I would turn to the Bible for comfort, only to find myself regaled yet again. Unto the woman God said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Even better was the Gray Case. Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead. Blue searched through all the normal channels and came up empty. Then, one day, as he was about to file his final report, he stumbled on Gray in a bar, not two blocks from where the wife was sitting, convinced he would never return. Gray’s name was now Green, but Blue knew it was Gray in spite of this, for he had been carrying around a photograph of the man for the past three months and knew his face by heart. It turned out to be amnesia. Blue took Gray back to his wife, and although he didn’t remember her and continued to call himself Green, he found her to his liking and some days later proposed marriage. So Mrs Gray became Mrs Green, married to the same man a second time, and while Gray never remembered the past – and stubbornly refused to admit that he had forgotten anything – that did not seem to stop him from living comfortably in the present.”
― The New York Trilogy
― The New York Trilogy
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