Status Updates From Guide

Incredibly ugly beautiful things -- the writing so sharp and so straight-forward too, might be my favorite since Frisk

"Pam’s fucked. Sue, too, for the moment."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 153). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"And now that I’m fine, loneliness is far too heavy and painful a state to relive. Still, I’m pretty sure it’s the truth. I’m completely alone. Not to raise my solitude over anyone else’s. It’s just scary sometimes. That’s all I can say about that. Sorry it’s vague."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 126). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Obviously that’s 99 percent bullshit. Still, it’s astonishing what you’ll believe when you want to believe in something badly enough."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 82). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

Is is the most romantic DC book yet?

'(...) I have this sensation of being inside something specifically generated by Luke. It's all about warmth, but it doesn't have the huge, impersonal blandness of sunlight, or the detailing and slight insanity of a flickering fireplace, or the clinical heat of a heater, or the wild rush you get plunging into a hot tub. It's a weaker heat, more poetic, and it practically itches'.

"Then I remember what I do when I’m not stoned. You know, write novels that are essentially long, involved wishes for offbeat utopian worlds that I can’t realistically enter. And within a few seconds I have this idea, which, if it’s not obvious, involves writing a novel/sigil that has a wish neatly embedded inside it. I guess it can’t hurt."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 66). Grove Atlantic.

"It made me feel like a kid. Or maybe I felt like a parent, because it wasn’t as if the tale itself became real. But Chris did. Or his story did."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 44). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Truth is dry. You’ll know the truth when everything in your world seems as if it’s been cooked until nothing is left but the exact information that separates it from other things in the world."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 22). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

“So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin.” —Arthur Rimbaud

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 2). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.