“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls. ”
― The Pastel City
― The Pastel City
“Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.”
― The Pastel City
― The Pastel City
“Horse-chestnut flowers bobbed like white wax candles above the deserted pavements. An oblique light struck into the street - so that its long and normally "profitless perspective seemed to lead straight into the heart of a younger, more ingenuous city - and fell across the fronts of the houses where he had once lived, warming up the rotten brick and imparting to it a not unpleasant pinkish colour.”
― Viriconium Nights
― Viriconium Nights
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