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“I cannot call you a sucker of cocks, for instance, because you have no mouth and no cock. I cannot say you are viler than the vilest beggar who ever crawled the gutters of the lowest street in creation, because even such a creature is
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“How ironic! We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“Now it is dark. Stars soar above the vacant city, heaven’s diadem. A century since the last person walked here, and still one cannot travel its streets, as I do, without seeing one’s face reflected a thousand-fold.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“Want to know something funny? Even people capable of living in the past don’t really know what the future holds.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Give people hope, and you could make them do just about anything. And not just your average, everyday kind of hope—for food or clothes or the absence of pain or good suburban schools or low down payments with easy financing. What people needed was a hope beyond the visible world, the world of the body and its trials, of life’s endless dull parade of things.”
― The Twelve
― The Twelve
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