Jonas o pospiesznym opuszczeniu Nessus przez Peleryny.
Źródło: Cień Kata
Gene Wolfe słynne cytaty
Jedna z dziesiątków filozoficznych maksym Jonasa.
Źródło: Cień Kata
Kolor czarny jest tradycyjny dla profesji katowskiej.
„Oboje będziemy radzi z towarzystwa, jak powiedział do ducha pewien przedsiębiorca pogrzebowy.”
Przewoźnik w Nessus
Źródło: Cytadela Autarchy
Jonas do Severiana.
Źródło: Pazur Łagodziciela
Gene Wolfe: Cytaty po angielsku
"The Right of Things to Come", presentation for the Science Fiction Research Association (1978), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.”
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.”
Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Źródło: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)
Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”
Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Volume 2, Ch. 23
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.”
"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
"Bed and Breakfast", Dante's Disciples (1995), ed. Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (2000), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction
“I pledged myself to show you wonders.”
I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.”
Źródło: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)