Tim Powers

Quotes

1. You’re still Brian Duffy. As much as you ever were. But you’re Arthur, too, and that kind of outshines everything else. Brandy and water tastes more like brandy than water, after all.

   p. 178

2. 

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

   p. 103

3. 

   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.”

   p. 91

4. 

   Gladhand sipped his whiskey. “Bourbon renewal, I called this,” he said, waving his glass. “One sip and the whole neighborhood looks better.”

   p. 294

5. 

   “Weird evening,” he said. “With this wind and all.”

   Gladhand nodded. “Several hundred years ago it was considered a valid defense in a murder trial if you could prove the Santa Ana wind was blowing when the murder was committed. The opinion was that the dry, hot wind made everybody so irritable that any murder was almost automatically excusable. Or so I’ve heard, anyway.”

   Thomas pondered it. “There might be something to that,” he said.

   “No,” Gladhand said. “There isn’t. Start sanctioning heat-of-anger crimes and you’ve lost the last hold on the set of conventions we call…society, civilization.”

   p. 230

6. 

   It’s too bad she’s the first girl I ever really knew, Thomas thought. I have no way of knowing whether all girls are this way or if she’s unique. I wonder if every guy heaves an instinctive sigh of relief when he’s kissed his girl goodnight, and the door is shut, and he can go relax by himself?

   p. 248

7. 

   “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

8. 

   “What was that building?” Thomas asked, leaning on the coping, and staring out at the conflagration.

   “Oh, a city office bombed by radicals,” Spencer answered, “or a radicals’ den bombed by city officers. I just hope it doesn’t spread real far on this wind.”

   p. 229

9. 

   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

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