# Quote — Tim Powers, The Skies Discrowned

> When the story was finished, Orcrist shook his head wonderingly.
>
> “The Fates must have something planned for you, Frank.”
>
> “I hope it’s something quiet.”

- Author: [Tim Powers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers.md)
- Book: [The Skies Discrowned](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-skies-discrowned.md)
- Page: 91
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#The_Skies_Discrowned_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-skies-discrowned/when-the-story

## More from this book

> Art, like a lot of things, is a lost art.

p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-skies-discrowned/art-like-a-lot.md)

> “This fruit syrup stuff is no good for smoking; it’s only fit for impressing ignorant girls.”
>
> Tyler shrugged, as if to say that that was reason enough to smoke it right there.

p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-skies-discrowned/this-fruit-syrup.md)

> What would Dad say, Frank wondered briefly, if he knew I was making a living as an art forger? He’d understand. As he once told me, while squinting against the hideous sunlight of a cold morning, “Frankie, if it was easy they'd have got somebody else to do it.”

p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-skies-discrowned/what-would-dad.md)