Tim Powers: Cytaty po angielsku
“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.”
Źródło: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 313)
“He thought about crossing his fingers, but clasped her hand instead.”
Epilogue (p. 535)
Last Call (1992)
Źródło: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 285)
Part 2, Chapter 2 (p. 264)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)
Aurelianus bowed. “You have that option, sir.”
Źródło: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 18 (p. 247)
“The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.”
Źródło: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 10 (p. 140)
Źródło: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 6 (p. 86)
Źródło: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 24 (p. 372)
The Hour of Babel (p. 62)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
“Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”
Źródło: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)
““Whats o’clock?”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.”
Źródło: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 19 (p. 207, quoting T. L. Beddoes)
Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 80)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)
Źródło: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 51)
““She chose to reject me!”
That wasn’t a choice, lad—that was an empty gun saying click.””
Part 1, Chapter 10 (p. 184)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)
Źródło: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 330)
“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)
Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 71)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)
“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”
Źródło: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)
Źródło: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 13 (p. 178)
Źródło: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 400)
“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”
Źródło: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 1 (p. 9, repeated on p. 53)