Top 46 Daryl Gregory Quotes
#1. I need that printer," I said. "And the precursor
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#3. So this made-up religion
"
"I didn't say made-up. I said brand new. 'Made-up religion' is redundant.
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#5. As I sat there in the pew during the altar call, I suddenly understood that if I didn't surrender to Him I would go to Hell when I died. It wasn't Hell itself that scared me - or not just Hell. It was the idea that my mother was going to Heaven without me.
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#6. She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it.
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#7. Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.
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#8. Drive safe, dress safe, live safe. Retreat to the safest place of all.
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#9. That morning, while Mom had fought with Grandpa, Aunt Sel had asked me to bring her a glass of wine - it was nine in the morning - and when I'd delivered it she'd handed me a ten dollar bill and said, I dislike children, but I do appreciate decent service.
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#10. You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.
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#11. Everyone in the class turned. On one of the tables, a frog had started to smoke, and the limbs were twitching spasmodically. Dr. Herbert rushed over, clapping his hands. "It's alive!" he cried.
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#12. Jesus, he 's blogger," Pax said. "Arrest him, Deke.
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#13. If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up.
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#14. He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window
universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.
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#15. He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?
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#16. A BS in any neuroscience without a master's or PhD was a three-legged dog of a degree: pitiable, adorable, and capable of inspiring applause when it did anything for you at all.
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#17. The rabbit is already in the hat. Do not clap for fucking Tinkerbell. Believe nothing.
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#18. Rogue factories on the other side of the border, most of them also on Native American reservations, pumped out millions of cheap, untaxed, generic cigarettes a year. You couldn't blame the Indians. We took their land; they were giving us cancer.
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#19. There was a scientist who did not believe in gods or fairies or supernatural creatures of any sort. But she had once known an angel, and had talked to her every day.
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#20. The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.
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#21. Divine essence?' I said. 'Hey, I'm Fat Boy, I'll possess a guy and make him eat ten pounds of chocolate in one sitting! Yeah, that's divine, that's fucking deep, that's like ... ' I couldn't think what that was like. It was like something, though.
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#22. Love at first sight is a myth, but thundering sexual attraction at first sight is hard science.
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#23. Maybe everyone in the world was this inconsistent, this fragments. All we could see of each other
all we could see of ourselves
was a ragged person-shaped outline, a game of connect-the-dots without enough dots.
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#24. For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.
He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.
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#25. The doctor unfurled her wings into Maximum Righteousness Mode. The flaming sword was in her hand. She pointed with it like the archangel casting us out of the garden. Get your ass back there!
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#26. I will admit to fucking a zucchini when I was in high school. For years I thought I was a vegesexual.
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#27. The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters ... It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in want of a matching strand of DNA.
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#28. Fayza leaned in, squinting, as if she didn't hear me correctly: one of the library of power moves that adults used to signal that other adults were fucking idiots.
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#29. There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.
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#30. Hyperentrepreneurs that make even hardcore capitalists nervous.
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#31. Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one.
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#32. Pretending to be normal made life so difficult.
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#33. Startled awake. Ollie froze for a moment, staring in his direction. The kid scrunched his face and yawned like a bear. I said to Ollie, "It's still Bobby." "Right," she said. She unzipped the bag. There was no lock on the zipper, not even the tiny padlocks they
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#35. What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth.
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#36. Was it possible that they could both be so unknown to themselves?
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#37. Sometimes you have to just act normal to make the world *be* normal.
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#38. You remember Ernest Angley? TV healer. He'd slap people's foreheads - whap! - and they'd flop over, quivering like fish." She hooted in laughter. "I used to love watching him. It was like professional wrestling for Baptists.
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#39. The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.
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#40. I've always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.
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#41. We're different from other people, she'd said. We only feel at home when we're a little bit afraid.
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#42. Just curious? That's a bullshit phrase."
"It's a simple question. How long - "
"No, it's a signal that bullshit is about to follow. It's the hat that bullshit puts on before it goes out to get the paper.
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#45. The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being.
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#46. Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.
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