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“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”

Tim Powers book Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)

“All wrong. The words seemed in this moment to describe Hale’s whole life.”

Tim Powers book Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 7 (p. 182)

“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”

Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard

Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

“Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.”

Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard

Source: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 285; quoting from the journal of Edward Williams)

“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”

Tim Powers book Last Call

Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)

“By the dim yellow glow of the overhead bulb, Lepidopt stared at the bomb and the time machine, and he tried to imagine what might go wrong.”

Tim Powers book Three Days to Never

Source: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 27 (p. 377)

“He always had to use holy water—real holy water, from gallon jugs he filled from the silver urn at St. Anne’s—but though it impressed the customers, all he could see that it actually did was get stuff wet.”

The Bible Repairman (p. 2)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Bradshaw sighed and swallowed, feeling the volatile coldness in his throat and trying to remember what tequila tasted like. Pepper and turpentine, as far as he could recall.”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 40 (p. 312)

“Sukie had always said that the Alice books were the Old and New Testaments for ghosts—which Pete had never understood; after all, Lewis Carroll hadn’t been dead yet when he’d written them.”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 6 (p. 44)

“Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans’ error.”

Tim Powers book The Anubis Gates

Source: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 15 (p. 370)

“Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?”

Tim Powers book Declare

Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 10 (p. 285)

““And you’ve never married.”
“I don’t know any women well enough to hate ’em that much.””

The Hour of Babel (p. 61)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

““That’s me, that old guy, that old drunk guy! Who claimed he was my dad? Like, me from the future?”
“One future, not the future. There isn’t any the future.””

Tim Powers book Three Days to Never

Source: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 313)

“Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.”

Tim Powers book The Drawing of the Dark

Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 183)

“This is very pretty,” said Elizalde…
“It’s morbid,” snapped Sullivan. “Burying a bunch of dead bodies, and putting a fancy marker over each one so the survivors will know where to go and cry. What if the markers got rearranged? You’d be weeping over some stranger. Not some stranger, even, some cast-off dead body of a stranger, like a pile of fingernail clippings or old shoes, or the dust from inside an electric razor. What’s the difference between coming out here to think about dead Uncle Irving, and thinking about him in your own living room? Okay, here you can sit on the grass and be only six feet above his inert old body. Would it be better if you could dig a hole, and sit only one foot above it?” He was shaking. “Everybody should be cremated, and the ashes should be tossed in the sea with no fanfare at all.”
“It’s a sign of respect,” said Elizalde angrily. “And it’s a real, tangible link. Think of the Shroud of Turin! Where would we be if they had cremated Jesus?”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

“I don’t know—we’d have the Ashtray of Turin.”
Source: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 40 (p. 308; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)

“I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.”

Part 1, Chapter 8 (p. 141)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“We’re going to have a séance. Oren, open the whisky, if you would, and pour each of us a full glass.”

Tim Powers book Three Days to Never

“First sensible remark all night,” said Charlotte.
Source: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 339)

“Where’s the sane world?”

Castine asked as she followed him around to the front of the Saturn. “I used to live there. I think I still have pictures.”
Source: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 13, “Would You Prevent God?” (p. 230)

“Guesses based on guesses are of no value.”

Source: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 2, “A Lot of M&Ms and Cigarettes” (p. 43)

“The terrain is the body, the map is the anatomy chart.”

Source: Alternate Routes (2018), Chapter 4 (p. 50)