Quotes from book
Jack Faust

Jack Faust is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Swanwick. It was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1997, and for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1998.

“It pained him to think how naive he had once been.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (p. 328)

“There was so much going on, and so little he cared to know about!”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 11, “Apes” (p. 184)

“Still, it was no easy thing to flirt in German.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 13, “Tabloids” (p. 225)

“Our records must be scrupulous, whether they show what we want them to show or not.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 9, “The Plague Kitchen” (p. 148)

“The hearsay of hearsay is not admissible as scholarship.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 1, “Trinity” (p. 11)

“They were not aware of the madness that lurked within their own minds.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 1, “Trinity” (p. 3)

“The law,” Hoess suggested, “might not be entirely unhelpful here.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 13, “Tabloids” (p. 214)