“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 238)
Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan – amerykańska pisarka science fiction. Jej utwory są zaliczane do cyberpunku, chociaż sama autorka tak nie uważa. Rodzina Pat od strony matki pochodzi z Polski. Wikipedia
“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 238)
“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 93)
Cadigan (1993) in: " Interview with Pat Cadigan, May 1993 http://tamaranth.blogspot.nl/1993/05/interview-pat-cadigan-may-1993.html" in The Hardcore, 1993
“Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 389)
“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 387)
“Aren’t they all?” Sam asked him.
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (pp. 52-53)
“If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 1 (p. 2)
“If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.”
Źródło: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 334; catch phrase repeated several times in the book)
Źródło: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Kontekst: 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.”
Źródło: Short fiction, Naming Names (1992), p. 389