# Falling Sideways

- Author: [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/falling-sideways

## Quotes

> You poor suckers [mammals]: you've got all this horrible stuff to get through somehow so obviously there's got to be an incentive, or at least some kind of fix for you to get addicted to. That's love: possibly the sneakiest trick ever played on any variety of life form by a notoriously conniving Universe. You do all these dismal, soul-destroying things because you get attached to each other.

p. 322

> You want the short version. Okay, then: shit happens. Does that answer all your question? Thought not. Now, if you shut your face and let me tell this my way, we might actually get somewhere. Thank you.

p. 319