Quotes
What is "poker"?
A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
p. 209
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
p. 168
“May I be frank?” Sherrington asked.
Irene sighed. This was always the sign of a fast-approaching insult.
p. 78
“I have a complicated relationship with my parents. It’s a good relationship, but…”
“You hardly ever see them!”
“Yes, that’s why it’s a good relationship.”
p. 25
The news was highly coloured, even if the print was black and white.
p. 118
She wasn’t actually going to lie, but there was…well, there might be an element of flexibility.
p. 322
There were so many possible logical holes in that statement that Irene could have used it as a tea-strainer.
p. 64
Is the Witchcraft committee led from below? From the middle or from the top? I rather like Karla's description of committees don't you? Is it Chinese? A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Far from wanting to pull a gun and shoot the man, Csongor now wanted to stand here and ask him questions all day. It was such a pleasure to be around someone who actually knew what the hell was going on.
"Do you know anything at all about Xiamen?” Zula asked.
“It is a curious place,” Csongor said. “Maybe a little like Hungary.”
“What does that mean?"
“Too many neighbors.”
And so it was that Richard had conceived Corporation 9592’s Writers in Residence Program. Years later, he was astounded by the naïveté of it. Writers, as it turned out, rather liked having residences. Once they had moved in, it was nearly impossible to dislodge them.
As a fantasy writer, Skraelin was not highly regarded…
“…one cannot call him profoundly mediocre without venturing so far out on the critical limb as to bend it to the ground…”
“…so derivative that the reader loses track of who he’s ripping off…”
“…to say he is tin-eared would render a disservice to a blameless citizen of the periodic table of the elements…”
But he was so freakishly prolific…and prolific was what Richard needed at this point in the game.
