Pat Cadigan citations

Pat Cadigan, née le 10 septembre 1953 à Schenectady dans l'État de New York, est un auteur de science-fiction américain, dont les œuvres sont parfois décrites comme s'inscrivant dans le mouvement cyberpunk, bien qu'elle ne revendique pas cette appartenance. Wikipedia  

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Pat Cadigan: Citations en anglais

“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 238)

“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.”

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

“The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.”

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 93)

“Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.”

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 389)

“Fez gave her a squeeze. “You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.”
She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. “It just makes sense, is all.””

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 387)

“If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.”

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 1 (p. 2)

“If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.”

Pat Cadigan livre Synners

Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 334; catch phrase repeated several times in the book)

“You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it! It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

Source: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Contexte: I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I’d slapped her.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”