# Nick Sagan

- Quotes: 14
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan

## Books

- [Idlewild](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild.md) — 14 quotes

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> ...and he died for what?--what thrill?--what cause?--tell me what treasure is worth the oxygen in a good man's brain?

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> 'Tell me who I am.'
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> 'Halloween,' she said.
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> I'd been rooting against it, but when the word came, it was almost a relief...Hell, I thought. A rose by any other name.
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> 'And who is that?'
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> 'You are my Lord Halloween, Prince of the Marshes, King of Kadath, High Sovereign of the Orange and Black.'

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> Why did it have to be ? Why couldn't it have been hypermnesia? Or ? Or hypochondria?

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> All hail the conquering hero. My best friend betrayed me, so I shot him. Distracted by a kiss, I let the love of my life die.

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> I'm not dead.
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> A dim realization but an important one, because I should have died.

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> I felt like taking on the world. I felt more in control than I'd ever been.
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> My partner in this endeavor: the psychotic who just broke my nose.

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> I remember the shock and...
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> ...and nothing. Just the shock.

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> Of course you think someone's trying to kill you, Hal--death is your favorite subject. Why shouldn't someone be trying to kill you?

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> I stood in the greeting-card aisle, looking for an appropriate sentiment. Though I searched high and low, there was no "so you're not even human" sympathy card.

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> He was the epitome of acting out to get attention. I think everyone acknowledged his jokes as a kind of defense mechanism. ('Humor? That's my lizard tail. You can look at that while I run away,' he'd once said.)

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> And love, with a cursive capital 'L,' is merely sleight of hand, doled out by genetic edict in order to keep DNA flowing. It's all genetics. And beyond that, it's all just zeros and ones. But friendship, with an unpretentious lowercase 'f,' is real and right and valuable.

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> 'I thought I put a stake through your heart,' he said.
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> 'I don't hold a grudge,' shrugged Doom.

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