Scott Hawkins Quotes

I was just wondering why you did that. Pretend to be a dipshit, I mean." The president grinned. "Prolly the same fuckin' reason you do.

Listening to him think out loud was sort of comical, though. He got real excited when it was banana-pudding night in the cafeteria . . .

Aren't you violating the building codes? Or the laws of physics?

Before I move closer towards my vision of the Buddha, I would respectfully plead that you adopt a stance of compassion towards the small things of this world." He

That's the risk in working to be a dangerous person," she said. "There's always the chance you'll run into someone who's better at it than you.

OK, think of it this way. Do you know how microwaves work?"
"No."
"It's based on microwaves."
"Oh, wait. I just remembered. I do know how microwaves work, and what you're saying is bullshit."
"Fine. It isn't microwaves.

One such was the notion of uzan-iya,
which was what they called the moment when an innocent heart first contemplated the act of murder. To the Atul, the crime itself was secondary to this initial corruption.

As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now. He chanted it to himself in cell blocks and dingy apartments, recited it like a litany, ripped himself to rags against the sharp and ugly poetry of it. It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs.

They were all staring at him now, the way dumb shits sometimes did when you surprised them.

We're still waiting on the lab work."
"It was a shotgun what did it, though. The same one?"
Dorn popped an eyebrow. "Good eye. You in forensics?"
"Not really." He had killed a lot of people with shotguns.

For all intents and purposes, the power of the Library is infinite. Tonight we're going to settle who inherits control of reality.

She wanted to burn the whole place to ashes but, at the same time, it would be kind of nice to see it again.

Home.

There might be others," Alicia said. "Some of the ones we don't see much. Q-33 North, maybe?" But she was looking at Nobununga, thoughtful.
"Is he the one with the tentacles?"
"No, that's Barry O'Shea. Q-33 North is the sort of iceberg with legs, remember? Up in Norway?"
"Oh, right.

Jennifer, like Father, had something of a fetish for office supplies. A

Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. "The Buddha teaches respect for all life." "Oh." She considered this. "Are you a Buddhist?" "No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.

Thwarted by technobabble.

He ended up teaching middleschool art for a living. That was some soothing shit right there.

Carolyn – I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?"
"An innocent heart? In America?" She hesitated.

Erwin gave no fucks.

So, way I see it, you can either go skip-skip-skippin' down this merry trail she's blazed for you, or you can lay back in the tall grass for a while, see if maybe you can figure out what the fuck is going on." The

Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people - two of them children - just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever.