Pat Cadigan

Quotes

Reaching in, he wrapped the exposed wires around his fingers and ripped them out. The locks released, letting the door fall open a crack.
“That’s what we call a Luddite hack.”
p. 338
Synners
He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.
p. 339
Synners
If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.
p. 334
Synners
That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.
p. 364
Synners
Fez gave her a squeeze. “You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.”
She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. “It just makes sense, is all.”
“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”
p. 387
Synners
The only place to go now is into the context. If you can find it. Between the context and the content, between the mainline and the hardline, falls the shadow.
p. 334
Synners
Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.
p. 238
Synners
Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.
p. 389
Synners
If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.
p. 2
Synners
Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.
p. 113
Synners
The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old—hell, not even growing up.
p. 109
Synners
If fasting really had anything to do with enlightenment then millions of people throughout the ages had died of the secret of life. And the secret of life was, in its entirety, that starvation hurt like a bastard.
p. 78
Mindplayers