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““God help us,” said Crawford softly.
“If there is one.” Byron grinned. “A whole lot of ghastly things have turned out to be possible, remember.””

Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard

Source: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 330)

“Lepidopt didn’t know if he was one of those pipe smokers who always had the thing in his mouth and talked around the stem, or one of the ones who was always fiddling with it in his hands, tamping it and relighting it and shoving a pipe cleaner down it; they were different sorts of men.”

Tim Powers book Three Days to Never

Source: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 8 (p. 118)

“Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.”

A Soul in a Bottle (p. 37)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Gabriel scowled through his glasses. Why were ghosts such imbeciles? Who could be blamed for striving, at any cost, to avoid forever the decay-of-self that death was?”

Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 71)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“In the early eighties, savvy Japanese had been scouring Melrose for old leather jackets and jukeboxes, and nervous tourists would drive by to look at the punks with green mohawks; now the funny hairstyles looked as if they’d been done at the Beverly Center. Like a government-subsidized avant-garde, Sullivan had thought as he’d tooled his old van down the crowded avenue, affluent disenfranchisement is just galvanic twitching in a dead frog’s leg.”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 15 (p. 100)

“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”

Tim Powers book Last Call

Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)

“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.”

Tim Powers book The Drawing of the Dark

Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 13 (p. 178)

“He tried to put more conviction into his voice than he felt, and he mentally cursed any God that there might be, for having made this coming ordeal not only tremendously difficult and dangerous, but possibly pointless too.”

Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard

Source: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 400)

““Hey,” Bozzaris said, “nobody’s human.” It was an old Mossad line, a mixture of “nobody’s perfect” and “I’m only human.””

Tim Powers book Three Days to Never

Source: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 4 (p. 58)

“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”

Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Source: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 1 (p. 9, repeated on p. 53)

“Your policy here, and in all the Arab states, has been to get out as much oil as you could, before the indigenous peoples looked around and noticed that they were living in the twentieth century.”

Tim Powers book Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 7 (pp. 184-185)

“He felt as if someone far away below in the darkness was chipping away at the pillars of his mind, and the steady crack…crack…crack of it was the only sound in the universe.”

Tim Powers book The Drawing of the Dark

Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 9 (p. 129)

“When they’d gone the old man turned around to watch the sun’s slow descent. The Boat of Millions of Years, he thought; the boat of the dying sungod Ra, tacking down the western sky to the source of the dark river that runs through the underworld from west to east, through the twelve hours of the night, at the far eastern end of which the boat will tomorrow reappear, bearing a once again youthful, newly reignited sun.
Or, he thought bitterly, removed from us by a distance the universe shouldn’t even be able to encompass, it’s a vast motionless globe of burning gas, around which this little ball of a planet rolls like a pellet of dung propelled by a kephera beetle. Take your pick, he told himself as he started slowly down the hill…But be willing to die for your choice.”

Tim Powers book The Anubis Gates

Source: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 1 (pp. 3-4)

“You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.”

A Time To Cast Away Stones (p. 126)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Work out your own damnation,” he said breathlessly, “in fear and trembling.”

Source: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 114 (parodying Philippians 2.12) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A12&version=KJV

“It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 34 (p. 253)

““You ever notice, Joe,” he asked, mechanically picking up the mug, “that it always takes a little more trouble to get something than the thing was really worth?”
Joe considered it. “Better than taking a lot of trouble and getting nothing.”
Dundee sipped the coffee. He didn’t seem to have heard Joe. “There’s so much weariness and fatigue in it all. For every action there is an equal… stupefaction. No, that might be bearable—it’s greater than the action.””

Tim Powers book The Anubis Gates

Source: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 342)

“The church has become a more…exclusive club since the founder’s day, it’s clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable.”

Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard

Source: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 10 (p. 129)

“People in 1900 didn’t think that radium could hurt you, just carrying a chip of it in your pocket like a lucky rock, and then one day their legs fell off and they died of cancer. Not believing something is no help if you turn out to be wrong.”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 4 (p. 28)

““There’s something you should know about me.”
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know, but you should know it.””

Source: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 100