Tim Powers cytaty

Tim Powers – amerykański autor fantastyki. Jedna z jego powieści, Ostatnia odzywka, została nagrodzona Nagrodą World Fantasy w roku 1993.

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✵ 29. Luty 1952
Tim Powers: 63   Cytaty 0   Polubień

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?”

Tim Powers książka Three Days to Never

“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.”

Tim Powers książka Last Call

Epilogue (p. 535)
Last Call (1992)

“How old are you, Brian? You ought to know by now that something always breaks up love affairs unless both parties are willing to compromise themselves. And that compromising is harder to do the older and less flexible and more independent you are. It just isn’t in you, Brian. You could no more get married now than you could become a priest, or a sculptor, or a greengrocer.”
Duffy opened his mouth to voice angry denials, then one corner turned up and he closed it. “Damn you,” he said wryly. “Then why do I want to, half the time?”
Aurelianus shrugged. “It’s the nature of the species. There’s a part of a man’s mind that can only relax and go to sleep when he’s with a woman, and that part gets tired of always being tensely awake. It gives orders in so loud a voice that it often drowns out the other components. But when the loud one is asleep at last, the others regain control and chart a new course.” He grinned. “No equilibrium is possible. If you don’t want to put up with the constant seesawing, you must either starve the logical components or bind, gag and lock away in a cellar that one insistent one.”
Duffy grimaced and drank some more brandy. “I’m used to the rocking, and I was never one to get motion-sick,” he said. “I’ll stay on the seesaw.”

Tim Powers książka The Drawing of the Dark

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.”

Tim Powers książka The Drawing of the Dark

Źródło: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 10 (p. 140)

“Say that again after you’ve been in the same spot and acted differently, old buddy. Maybe then I’ll be ashamed.”

Tim Powers książka The Anubis Gates

Źródło: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 7 (pp. 169-170)

“Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”

Tim Powers książka Declare

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

““Whats o’clock?”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.”

Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Źródło: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 19 (p. 207, quoting T. L. Beddoes)

““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)

““God help us,” said Crawford softly.
“If there is one.” Byron grinned. “A whole lot of ghastly things have turned out to be possible, remember.””

Tim Powers książka The Stress of Her Regard

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)

“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”

Tim Powers książka Last Call

Źródło: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)

“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”

Tim Powers On Stranger Tides

Źródło: On Stranger Tides (1987), Chapter 1 (p. 9, repeated on p. 53)