Quotes from book
Summer of Love

Name: Summer of Love
Author: Lisa Mason

Summer of Love is a novel by Lisa Mason. It is about a time traveler from the year 2467, who goes back in time to the 1967 Summer of Love.

“In the beginning and the end, it’s all a crapshoot. The Cosmic Mind does play dice. Loves to gamble, in fact.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 35)

“Junk does that. Junk is a forge. You enter the fire and come out twisted.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 15 “Over Under Sideways Down” (p. 329)

“By the time people could speak about mandatory population control in a rational way, it was too late.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 19 “Hello Goodbye” (p. 406)

“Consider impact before you consider benefit.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 34; ecological catchphrase repeated often in the book)

“To give is best, live responsibly or die.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 43)

“You are either the man in the white coat or you are the monkey. Susan sees herself as the monkey.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 4 “Foxy Lady” (p. 82)

“What was that teacher trying to do?
That teacher was trying to break her spirit.
But why would school do that? So you could become someone like her parents and believe in the things they believe in. So you won’t believe in the things they don’t believe in. And believe you’re a happy person whose life has meaning. So you will go to your job and do whatever gross thing someone tells you to do and get drunk on Friday and Saturday nights and pay taxes and bills. That’s why.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 4 “Foxy Lady” (pp. 81-82)

“The technopolistic plutocracy will dump pollutants into the atmosphere for another century on the grounds that compliance with limits is too expensive.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 8 “Ball and Chain” (p. 176)

“I have not told the police about it. Every member of the police department I have encountered during my stay in San Francisco has been nearly as surly and intractable as my rapist friend, because I look like a hippie. Each time I attempted to explain myself I was rebuffed or threatened.
From this experience I am tempted to draw an odd analogy: under stress, neither the policeman nor the rapist allows an opportunity for rational communication. Each one relies on violence to make to make his impression. This is not an accident, but, rather evidence of a widespread sickness. When will violence stop long enough for communication to begin? On second thought, perhaps I am doing the police department a grave disservice in not attempting to put them in contact with the rapist. Maybe, with just a little mind-bending, that rapist would make a damned good cop, and both could swagger together, true soul brothers, under the many-colored cloak of Fascism.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 10 “Dedicated to the One I Love” (p. 230)

““Acid,” says the guy with the eyes, “raises your powers of integration so that everything is important.”
“Acid,” says Chiron, “lowers your powers of discrimination so that everything seems important.””

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 6 “Purple Haze” (p. 133)

“Since they were little, wishing on the first star of the evening, they both understood this: the most exciting game in life is to invent yourself.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 10 “Dedicated to the One I Love” (p. 236)

“I didn’t lie. I implied.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 6 “Purple Haze” (p. 139)

“The girl with her face. A Devolved Entity Manifested from the Other Now? A demon that wants to off her? It’s like the rumors of concentration camps. So weird she can’t believe it, and so plausible she can’t afford to disbelieve it.”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 10 “Dedicated to the One I Love” (p. 224)

“She’s got space. Lots of space in her house. What about in her heart?”

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 6 “Purple Haze” (p. 124)

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