# Quote — William Gibson, Burning Chrome

> If I was looking to be depressed, I’d come to the right place.

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [Burning Chrome](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/burning-chrome.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Burning_Chrome_(short_story_collection,_1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/burning-chrome/if-i-was

## More from this book

> Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things.

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> "But why?" Korolev shook his head, deeply confused. "Why have you come?"
>
> "We told you. To live here…Who'd want to live out here for the sake of some government, some army brass, a bunch of pen pushers? You have to want a frontier—want it in your bones, right?"
>
> Korolev smiled. Andy grinned back.

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> When the knocking came, he knew that it must be a dream as well.
>
> The hatch wheeled open.
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> He saw that the woman was black. Long corkscrews of matted hair rose like cobras around her head.
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> "Andy," she said in English, "you better come see this!"
>
> "Is he alive?"
>
> "Of course I am alive." said Korolev in slightly accented English.
>
> The man called Andy sailed in over her head. "You okay, Jack?" His right bicep was tattooed with a geodesic balloon above crossed lightning bolts and bore the legend SUNSPARK 15, UTAH. "We weren't expecting anybody."
>
> "Neither was I," said Korolev, blinking.

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